Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Prize in which category?
- A.Literature
- B.Peace
- C.Economic Sciences
- D.Physiology or Medicine
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The correct answer is C, Economic Sciences. Amartya Sen was awarded the prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 for his contributions to welfare economics, among them his work on social choice, on poverty and on the causes of famines. He was the first Asian to receive this prize, and he had earlier been given the Bharat Ratna in 1999.
Option A, Literature, is the category of Tagore in 1913 and of V. S. Naipaul in 2001. Option B, Peace, is the category of Mother Teresa in 1979 and Kailash Satyarthi in 2014. Option D, Physiology or Medicine, is the category in which Hargobind Khorana was honoured in 1968 for his work on the genetic code. The prize in Economic Sciences is the one that was not in Alfred Nobel's will but was added by the central bank of Sweden in 1968.
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Practice Questions
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- A.5
- B.7
- C.4
- D.6
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The Nobel Prize is awarded every year in six categories: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economic Sciences.
Read the full explanation →Who is the first ever Indian recipient of a Nobel Prize?
- A.Rabindranath Tagore
- B.Mother Teresa
- C.Amartya Sen
- D.CV Raman
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He was the first Indian and also the first person from Asia to be awarded a Nobel Prize in any category, and the prize brought Indian writing to the notice of readers across Europe.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following was the first female from India to receive the Nobel Peace prize?
- A.Mother Teresa
- B.Nargis Dutt
- C.Indira Gandhi
- D.Sarojini Naidu
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She was born at Skopje, came to India as a nun, took Indian citizenship in 1948 and founded the Missionaries of Charity at Kolkata in 1950.
Read the full explanation →Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for which work?
- A.Gora
- B.Gitanjali
- C.The Home and the World
- D.Chokher Bali
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The Nobel Prize for Literature came to him in 1913 for these verses, the citation praising their sensitive and beautiful language, and it made him the first Asian Nobel laureate.
Read the full explanation →In which year did C. V. Raman win the Nobel Prize in Physics?
- A.1913
- B.1928
- C.1930
- D.1947
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Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was given the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for his work on the scattering of light and for the effect that carries his name, by which light passing through a transparent medium changes in wavelength.
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