List of Nobel Prize winner of Indian citizen, Foreign Indian Citizen, Foreign Born Indian citizen, Indian born Foreign Citizen

 Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed in a number of categories by Swedish and Norwegian committees in recognition of cultural and/or scientific advances. The will of the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel established the prizes in 1895. The prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace were first awarded in 1901. The related Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was created in 1968. The Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway, while the other prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden. The Nobel Prize is widely regarded as the most prestigious award available in the fields of literature, medicine, physics, chemistry, peace, and economics.

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Nobel Prize Winners of Indian born and Indian Citizen:

1) Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941):

·         He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for "Gitanjali" in 1913. 

·         He founded “Shantiniketan”, which later became Viswa Bharati University.

·         Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian to win Nobel Prize.

·         Tagore wrote and composed the national anthem too.

2) Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970):

·         Dr. Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman won  the Nobel Prize for Physics for his "RAMAN" effect in 1930.

·         Every year on 28 February National science day is celebrated to commemorate the discovery of Raman effect.

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