List of Nobel Prize Winners from India

Nobel Prize is an annual International award conversed for the outstanding work. They are six prizes awarded for the work in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, economics, and the promotion of peace. The Nobel Prize was established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel and the first Nobel Prize was awarded in 1901. Below are the details of the Noble Prize Winners from India and also about the Field which they are being awarded for. They were the Citizens of India during the time they were awarded.

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Nobel Prize Winners from India

Sr.No	Person	Nationality	Year	Field
1.	Rabindranath Tagore	Indian	1913	Literature
2.	C.V.Raman	Indian	1930	Physics
3.	Mother Teresa	Indian	1979	Peace
4.	Amartya Sen	Indian	1998	Economics
5.	Kailash Satyarthi	Indian	2014	Peace

These are the few Nobel Prize winners who the born in Indian as Indian Citizens but were Citizen of another country when they were awarded the Nobel Prize.

Sr.No	Person	Nationality	Year	Field
1.	Har Gobind Khorana	United States (born in India)	1968	Physiology or Medicine
2.	Subrahmanyan Chandra Sekhar	United States (born in India)	1983	Physics
3.	Venki Ramakrishnan	United Kingdom (born in India)	2009	Chemistry
4.	Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee	United States (born in India)	2019	Economics Sciences

Below are the few Nobel Prize winners who were born in India or where the residents of India but were not the Indian Citizens when they were given the Nobel Prize.

Sr.No.	Person	Nationality	Year		Field
1.	Ronald Ross	United Kingdom (born in India)		1902	Medicine
2.	Rudyard Kilpling	United Kingdom (born in India)		1907	Literature
3.	14^th Dalai Lama	India (born in Tibet)		1989	Peace

These are reason behind the achievement in particular field by the Noble Prize winners of India.

Sr.No	Person	Reason of achievement in a particular field
1.	Rabindranath Tagore	“Because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West.”
2.	C.V.Raman	“For his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him.”
3.	Mother Teresa	“In recognition of [her] work in bringing help to suffering humanity”
4.	Amartya Sen	“For his contributions to welfare economics.”
5.	Kailash Satyarthi	“For their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.”
6.	Har Gobind Khorana	“For their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis.”
7.	Subrahmanyan Chandra Sekhar	“For his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars.”
8.	Venki Ramakrishnan	“For studies of the structure and function of the ribosome.”
9.	Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee	“For their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”
10.	Ronald Ross	“For his work on malaria, by which he has shown how it enters the organism and thereby has laid the foundation for successful research on this disease and methods of combating it.”
11.	Rudyard Kipling	“For his consistent resistance to the use of violence in his people’s struggle to regain their liberty.”
12.	14^th Dalai Lama	“For his consistent resistance to the use of violence in his people’s struggle to regain their liberty.”

The Nobel Prize is being awarded to the people for their outstanding work done in six different fields. The Nobel Prize of India is been awarded for people who are Citizens of India during the time they were awarded also for people who were born in India as Indian Citizens but were citizens of another country when they were awarded the Nobel prize. There were few Nobel Prize winners who were born in India or where the residents of India but were not Indian Citizens.

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