Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed in a number of categories by Swedish and Norwegian committees in recognition of academic, cultural, and/or scientific advances.
Categories in Nobel Prize:
The Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel established the prizes in 1895. Nobel prizes are given to the following category: Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, Economic Sciences, and Physiology or Medicine.
Winners of Nobel Prize in India:
Nobel Laureates | Field | Year |
Rabindranath Tagore | Literature | 1913 |
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman | Physics | 1930 |
Har Gobind Khorana | Medicine | 1968 |
Mother Teresa | Peace | 1979 |
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | Physics | 1983 |
Dr. Amartya Sen | Economic Sciences | 1998 |
Rajendra Kumar Pachauri | Peace | 2007 |
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan | Chemistry | 2009 |
Kailash Satyarthi | Peace | 2014 |
Abhijit Banerjee | Economic Sciences | 2019 |