List of Indian Nobel laureates

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Rabindranath Tagore was the first person of Indian origin and also first Asian to be awarded with the Nobel Prize. He received the prize for Literature in 1913. Rabindranath Tagore in 1909.jpg
Rabindranath Tagore was the first person of Indian origin and also first Asian to be awarded with the Nobel Prize. He received the prize for Literature in 1913.

The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed on "those who conferred the greatest benefit on humankind" in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economic Sciences, [upper-alpha 1] [2] instituted by Alfred Nobel's last will, which specified that a part of his fortune be used to create the prizes. Each laureate (recipient) receives a gold medal, a diploma and a sum of money, which is decided annually by the Nobel Foundation. [3] The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel; the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; the Swedish Academy awards the Nobel Prize in Literature; and the Norwegian Nobel Committee awards the Nobel Peace Prize. They are widely recognised as one of the most prestigious honours awarded in the aforementioned fields. [4]

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First instituted in 1901, the Nobel Prize has been awarded to a total of 989 individuals (930 men and 59 women) and 30 organisations as of 2022. [5] Among the recipients, 12 are Indians of which 5 are Indian citizens and 7 are of Indian ancestry or residency. Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian citizen to be awarded and also first Asian to be awarded in 1913. Mother Teresa is the only woman among the list of recipients. [6] Sri Aurobindo, the Indian poet, philosopher, nationalist and developer of Integral yoga, was nominated unsuccessfully for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1943 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950. [7] [8]

On 1 December 1999, the Norwegian Nobel Committee confirmed that Mahatma Gandhi was nominated unsuccessfully for the Peace Prize five times (from 1937 to 1939, in 1947 and a few days before he was assassinated in January 1948). [9] In 2006, Geir Lundestad, the Secretary of Norwegian Nobel Committee, cited it as "the greatest omission in our 106-year history". [10] [11] [12]

Laureates

The following are the Nobel laureates who were residing in India at the time they were awarded the Nobel Prize. [13] [upper-alpha 2]
YearLaureateFieldRationaleRef.
1913 Rabindranath Tagore in 1909.jpg Rabindranath Tagore Literature"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." [15]
1930 Sir CV Raman.JPG C. V. Raman Physics"For his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him." [16]
1979 MotherTeresa 094.jpg Mother Teresa
[upper-alpha 3] 		Peace"in recognition of [her] work in bringing help to suffering humanity" [17] [18]
1998 Amartya Sen , c2000 (4379246038).jpg Amartya Sen Economic Sciences"For his contributions to welfare economics." [19]
2014 Kailash Satyarthi March 2015.jpg Kailash Satyarthi
[upper-alpha 4] 		Peace"For their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education." [20]

Overseas citizens of Indian origin

The following are not Indians, but rather Nobel laureates born in British India or laureates who are of Indian origin but subsequently non-citizens of India; however, they are still often included in lists of Indian Nobel laureates.
YearLaureateCountry of residenceFieldRationaleRef.
1968 Har Gobind Khorana nobel.jpg Har Gobind Khorana [upper-alpha 5] Flag of the United States.svg  United States
(born in Raipur, British India, now Pakistan)		Physiology or Medicine"For their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis." [21]
1983 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.gif Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Flag of the United States.svg  United States
(born in Lahore, British India, now Pakistan)		Physics"For his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars." [22]
2009 Nobel Prize 2009-Press Conference KVA-08.jpg Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom / Flag of the United States.svg  United States
(born in Chidambaram, India)		Chemistry"For studies of the structure and function of the ribosome." [23]
2019 FT Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2011 (cropped).jpg Abhijit Banerjee Flag of the United States.svg  United States
(born in Mumbai, India)		Economics"For his experimental approach to alleviating Global Poverty" [24]

Other

The following are Nobel laureates with Indian linkages – foreigners who were born in India, those who are of Indian ancestry and those who were residents in India when they became recipients of the Nobel Prize.
YearLaureateCountry of residenceFieldRationaleRef
1902 Ronald Ross.jpg Ronald Ross Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom
(born in Almora, British India)		Physiology or Medicine"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." [25]
1907 Rudyard Kipling, by Elliott & Fry (cropped).jpg Rudyard Kipling Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom
(born in Bombay, British India)		Literature"In consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author." [26]
1989 Dalailama1 20121014 4639.jpg 14th Dalai Lama Flag of India.svg  India
(born in Taktser, Republic of China)		Peace"For his consistent resistance to the use of violence in his people’s struggle to regain their liberty." [27] [28]
2001 VS Naipal 2016 Dhaka.jpg V. S. Naipaul Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom
(born in Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago)		Literature"For having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories." [29]

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Notes

  1. ↑ The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences is an additional prize that was established in 1968 by the Bank of Sweden and was first awarded in 1969. Although not technically a Nobel Prize, it is identified with the award and the winners are announced with the Nobel Prize recipients, and the Prize in Economic Sciences is presented at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony. [2]
  2. ↑ Per Indian nationality law, Article 9 of the Indian Constitution says that a person who voluntarily acquires citizenship of any other country is no longer an Indian citizen. Also, according to The Passports Act, a person has to surrender his Indian passport; it is a punishable offence under the act if he fails to surrender the passport. Hence, citizenship exclusively includes jus sanguinis (citizenship by right of blood). [14]
  3. ↑ Born in Skopje, Ottoman Empire
  4. ↑ shared with Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan
  5. ↑ Awarded along with Robert W. Holley and Marshall W. Nirenberg

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