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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The correct answer is A, Rabindranath Tagore, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for Gitanjali, the English rendering of his own Bengali poems. 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.
Option B, Mother Teresa, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, sixty six years later, for her work among the poor and the dying in Kolkata. Option C, Amartya Sen, won the prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 for his work on welfare economics and famines. Option D, C. V. Raman, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for the scattering of light known as the Raman Effect, which makes him the first Indian to win a Nobel in the sciences but still seventeen years after Tagore.
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Practice Questions
View allHow many categories Nobel Prize Awards are awarded each year?
- 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 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.
Read the full explanation →Arundhati Roy won the Booker Prize in 1997 for which novel?
- A.The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
- B.The God of Small Things
- C.The Inheritance of Loss
- D.A Suitable Boy
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It won the Booker Prize in 1997, the fiftieth year of India's independence, and made her the first Indian woman to win the award.
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