Indian Nobel Prize Winners

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Hereby we have provided a List of Indian Nobel Prize Winners in PDF Format.
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Nobel Laureates – Indian Citizens

Nobel Laureates of
Field – Contribution Year
India

Literature – “because of his profoundly

sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by
which, with consummate skill, he has made
Rabindranath Tagore 1913
his poetic thought, expressed in his own
English words, a part of the literature of the
West”

Physics – “for his work on the scattering of

C.V. Raman light and for the discovery of the effect 1930
named after him”

Peace – “for work undertaken in the struggle

Mother Teresa to overcome poverty and distress, which 1979
also constitutes a threat to peace”

Economic Studies – “for his contributions to

Amartya Sen 1998
welfare economics”

Peace – “for struggle against the suppression

Kailash Satyarthi of children and young people and for the 2014
right of all children to education”

Note: Nobel Peace Prize, 2014 was awarded jointly to Kailash Satyarthi
and Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan.

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 Nobel Laureates – Overseas Citizens of Indian Origin

Name Field – Contribution Year

Hargobind Khorana
(American Citizen, born in
Raipur, British India)
Subrahmanyan
Chandrasekhar
(American Citizen, born in
Lahore, British India)
Venkatraman
Ramakrishnan
(Holds United Kingdom as
well as American
citizenship, born in Tamil
Nadu)
Physiology/Medicine – “for
interpretation of the genetic code and 1913
its function in protein synthesis”
Physics – “for theoretical studies of the
physical processes of importance to
1930
the structure and evolution of the
stars”
Chemistry – “for studies of the
structure and function of the 1979
ribosome”

Notes:

Nobel Prize for Physiology/Medicine, 1968 was awarded to Hargobind

Khorana along with Robert W. Holley and Marshall W. Nirenberg.
Nobel Prize for Physics, 1983 was shared between Subrahmanyan
Chandrasekhar and William Alfred Fowler.
Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 2009 was awarded jointly to Venkatraman
Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath

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