Indian Nobel Prize Winners & Twice Recepients of Nobel Prize
- It is the most coveted international award of the world.
- It was instituted by the inventor of dynamite ,Alfred Bernard Nobel (1833-96).
- The award is given on Dec 10, which is the death anniversary of its founder.
- Economics Nobel Prize was instituted in 1967 and was first given in 1969.
Indian Nobel Prize Winners
- 1913 : —- Rabindranath Tagore (Literature).
- 1930 : —- Dr. C.V. Raman ( Physics).
- 1968 : —- Dr Hargovind Khurana ( Medicine).
- 1979 : —- Mother Teresa ( Peace).
- 1983 : —- Dr. S. Chandrashekhar (Physics).
- 1999 : —- Dr. Amartya Sen (Economics).
- 2001 : —- V.S.Naipaul (Literature).
- 2009 : —- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (Chemistry).
- 2014 : —- Kailash Satyarthi (Peace).
Twice Recepients of Nobel Prize
- John Bardeen : —- 1956 & 1972 (Physics).
- Frederic Sanger : —- 1958 & 1980 (Chemistry).
- Marie Curie :—- (1903 –Physics) & (1911 – Physics).
- Linus Pauling : —- (1954 – Chemistry) & (1962 – Peace).
The international Committee of the Red Cross has been awarded the Nobel Prize for peace three times : 1917 , 1944 and 1963.
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