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Download Solution PDFWho is the first ever Indian recipient of a Nobel Prize?
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Option 1 : Rabindranath Tagore
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Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is Rabindranath Tagore.
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- Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian citizen to be awarded and also the first Asian to be awarded.
Additional Information
| Nobel prize | Personalities (the year they won) |
| Physics | Subramanian Chandrashekhar(1983), Chandrashekhar Venkataraman(1930)*first ever in physics from India. |
| Chemistry | Venkatraman Ramakrishnan(2009)*Indian origin |
| Medicine | Hargobind Khorana(1968) |
| Peace | Mother Teresa(1979) |
| Economics | Amartya Sen(1998) |
| Literature | Rabindranath Tagore(1913)*first ever across all fields from India |
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