Nobel Prize is named after a well-known chemist, engineer, and inventor Alfred Nobel. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden. According to the Alfred Nobel Will 1895, noble prizes are conferred in five separate areas Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace, to those who have best severed humankind during the preceding years. He died in the year 1896, in his will he passed on his asset to be used for the establishment of prizes which are named “Nobel Prizes”. The Nobel prize was first awarded in the year 1901. In 1968, a central bank of Sweden, that is, Sveriges Riksbank funded the establishment of the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences. From then onwards, Nobel Prizes are awarded in six different fields.
As of 2024, India has produced a total of nine Nobel laureates, reflecting significant contributions across various fields including literature, physics, medicine, peace, and economics.
| Name (Year) | Field | Contribution |
|---|---|---|
| Rabindranath Tagore (1913) | Literature | First non-European to win the Nobel Prize for his literary work Gitanjali. |
| C.V. Raman (1930) | Physics | For his work on the scattering of light, known as the “Raman Effect”. |
| Har Gobind Khorana (1968) | Medicine | For his work on the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis. |
| Mother Teresa (1979) | Peace | For her humanitarian work and contributions to helping the poor and sick in Kolkata. |
| Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1983) | Physics | For his theoretical studies of the physical processes of the structure and evolution of stars. |
| Amartya Sen (1998) | Economic Sciences | For his contributions to welfare economics and studies on poverty and famine. |
| Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (2009) | Chemistry | For his work on the structure and function of the ribosome. |
| Kailash Satyarthi (2014) | Peace | For his efforts in combating child labor and promoting children’s rights. |
| Abhijit Banerjee (2019) | Economics | For his experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”. |