India’s Nobel Winners: The Nobel Prize, revered worldwide, honors Indians in fields like Literature, Physics, Chemistry, Economics, Peace, and Medicine. Learn about these remarkable individuals and their profound contributions to humanity.
Nobel Prize Winners in India
| Year | Recipient | Category | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1913 | Rabindranath Tagore | Nobel Prize for Literature | “for his profoundly sensitive, fresh, and beautiful verse” |
| 1930 | CV Raman | Nobel Prize for Physics | “for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him” |
| 1968 | Har Gobind Khurana | Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine | “for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis” |
| 1979 | Mother Teresa | Nobel Peace Prize | “for Humanitarian Work” |
| 1983 | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | Nobel Prize in Physics | “for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars” |
| 1998 | Amartya Sen | Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences | “for his contributions to welfare economics” |
| 2009 | Venkatraman Ramakrishnan | Nobel Prize in Chemistry | “studies of the structure and function of the ribosome” |
| 2019 | Abhijit Banerjee | Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences | “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty” |
