General Knowledge / List of Nobel Prize Winners from India
The Nobel Prize is a set of 6 annual international awards bestowed in
several categories by Swedish and Norwegian institutions in recognition of
academic, cultural, or scientific advances.
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S.No
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Name
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Year
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Field
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Study about
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1
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Rabindranath Tagore
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1913
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Literature
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Because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which,
with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own
English words, a part of the literature of the West.
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2
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C. V. Raman
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1930
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Physics
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Scattering of light.
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3
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Mother Teresa
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1979
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Peace
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Suffering humanity.
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4
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Amartya Sen
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1998
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Economic Sciences
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Contributions to welfare economics.
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5
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Har Gobind Khorana
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1968
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Physiology or Medicine
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Interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis.
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6
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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1983
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Physics
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Physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the
stars.
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7
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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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2009
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Chemistry
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Structure and function of the ribosome.
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