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Indians Who Received Nobel Prize

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Original Author: kadungoth
Nobel prize winners of India –the luckiest
The first person in India to receive Nobel prize-
Sir Rabindranath Tagore (India) for literature in 1913
The first person to receive Nobel Prize for physics was Sir Chandrasekhara Raman in 1930.
The close relative who received who received the award Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (now taken citizenship in United States) received the award in 1983 (whose uncle is none other than Chandrasekhara Raman.)
The only women who received the Nobel Prize for peace in India were Mother Teresa of Calcutta (India) in 1979.
The one who received Nobel Prize for medical science Har Gobind Khorana (now a citizenship in United States) in 1968
The one Indian who received Nobel Prize for economics in India is 1998 Amartya Sen.
The one Indian who is the citizen of Britain received Nobel Prize for literature in 2001 is Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (United Kingdom)

The one who is born in India who received Nobel Prize
in 1907 Rudyard Kipling (United Kingdom)
2007 Nobel peace prize was received by I.P.C. under Rajendra Pachouri
Published: November 05, 2008
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