List of Indian Nobel Prize Winners from 1913 to 2023
Rabindranath Tagore (1913)
Poet, musician, and painter awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his profoundly sensitive and beautiful verse, becoming the first Asian Nobel laureate.
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C.V. Raman (1930)
Physicist awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the Raman effect, a groundbreaking phenomenon in light scattering.
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Har Gobind Khorana (1968)
Indian-American biochemist awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for deciphering the genetic code.
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Mother Teresa (1979)
Roman Catholic nun and humanitarian, Mother Teresa, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Missionaries of Charity and serving the poorest of the poor.
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1983)
Indian-American astrophysicist awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his theoretical studies of stars.
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Amartya Sen (1998)
Economist Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social justice.
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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (2009)
Structural biologist awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the structure and function of ribosomes.
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Kailash Satyarthi (2014)
Child rights activist awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his lifelong fight against child labour and for championing children’s right to education with UNESCO. Shared with Malala Yousafzai.
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Abhijit Banerjee (2019)
Indian-American economist awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for groundbreaking research on global poverty reduction. He is currently working as an MIT professor.
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