9 Indians Who Have Won The Nobel Prize

Updated on: 05 October, 2023 05:42 PM IST |Shreyas Pande

This is a list of all the Nobel Prize winners from India. Right from 1913 to 2023, total 9 Indians have received the honor.

Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in 2013

Rabindranath Tagore (1913)

Rabindranath Tagore is the first Indian to have recieved the honor when he won The Nobel Prize for his contributions to literature. His poetry collection Geetanjali won him the award.

Raman was a pioneer who discovered the Raman effect

CV Raman (1930)

Raman was an exceptional scientist from India whose contributions to physics made him the second person to win the Nobel Prize in the year 1930. Along with his student, he discovered that light changes its wavelength and frequency when travelling through a transparent medium. It was later called the Raman effect.

Har Gobind Khorana was a American-Indian biochemist.

Har Gobind Khorana (1968)

Dr. Har Gobind Khorana won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in the year 1968. He made a major breakthrough in gentic code and protein synthesis leading to a better understanding of the physical world.

Mother Teresa was a humanitarian who saved many lives and worked endlessly for the downtrodden.

Mother Teresa (1979)

Given a name of mother for her selfless care and serving to humanity, Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She became the first woman to recieve the honour from India.

Subramanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American astrophysicist.

Subramanyan Chandrasekhar (1983)

Subramanyan Chandrasekhar made some astounding therotical disocoveries due to which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. He worked tirelessly on various problems in physics throughout his life.

Amartya Sen is a renowned philosopher and economist.

Amartya Sen (1998)

Amartya Sen has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, famine theory among others. Ever since 1972, he has taught and worked in the United Kingdom. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is a structural biologist who won the Nobel Prize in 2009

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (2009)

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, along with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada Yonath conducted research on the structure and function of ribosomes, making major breakthroughs. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2009 along with the two.

Kailash Satyarthi is a social activist who has been fighting for the rights of the oppressed in India.

Kailash Satyarthi (2014)

Working to end child labour and promoting Right to Education for children, Kailash Satyarthi was given the Nobel Peace Prize for the kind of change he brought.

Abhijit Banerjee is an Indian born American economist.

Abhijit Banerjee (2019)

Abhijit Banerjee made significant contributions to economics by his experimental approach to end global poverty. He recieved the Nobel Prize for economics in 2019 which was shared with his wife Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer.