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Download Solution PDFIn which year did Amartya Sen receive the Nobel Prize for Economics?
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Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is 1998.
- Amartya Sen is a world-renowned Nobel Laureate who was awarded the Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 “for his contributions to welfare economics”.
- Sen was best known for his work on the causes of famine, which led to the development of practical solutions for preventing or limiting the effects of real or perceived shortages of food.
Additional Information
- List of Nobel Prize recipients in India:
- Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel Prize in Literature (1913).
- C.V. Raman, Nobel Prize in Physics (1930).
- Har Gobind Khorana, Nobel Prize in Medicine (1968).
- Mother Teresa, Nobel Peace Prize (1979).
- Subrahmanyam Chandrasekhar, Nobel Prize in Physics (1983).
- 14th Dalai Lama, Nobel Prize for Peace (1989).
- Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (1998).
- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2009).
- Kailash Satyarthi, Nobel Peace Prize (2014).
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