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Thanks to all who has given information.......We all expect more Indian personalities to receive nobel prize

Can anyone please tell me more about nobel prize and how many indians have won it.

Here is a list of those Indians who have won this award and made the country proud:

- Rudyard Kipling - Nobel Prize for Literature (1907)

- Rabindranath Tagore - Nobel Prize for Literature (1913)

- Sir Chandrasekhar Venkata Raman (C.V. Raman) - Nobel Prize for -Physics (1930)

- Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997) - Nobel Prize for peace (1979)

- Dr. Amartya Sen - Nobel Prize for Economics (1998)

- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan - Nobel Prize for Chemistry (2009)

- Dr. Har Gobind Khorana - Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology (1968)

- Dr. Subramanyan Chandrasekhar - Nobel Prize for physics (1983)

- V.S. Naipaul - Nobel Prize for Literature (2001)

- Sir Ronald Ross - Nobel Prize for Physiology (1902)

Thank for all for Giving lot of information

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Who won nobel prize in 2010?

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Thanks for information. Who got the first novel prize in the world?

Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen received the first Physics Prize for his discovery of X-rays.

The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895. The prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace were first awarded in 1901.