Question

In which year the first person of Indian Origin, first Asian and first non European to be awarded with the Nobel Prize?
1. 1907
2. 1911
3. 1913
4. 1930

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 3 : 1913

The correct answer is option 3, i.e, 1913.

• Rabindranath Tagore was the first person of Indian Origin, first Asian and first non European to be awarded with the Nobel Prize.
• He recieved the prize for Literature in 1913.
• The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economic Sciences.
• Each laureates recieves a gold medal, a diploma and a sum of money which is decided by the Nobel Foundation.
• There are 9 Indians have won Nobel Prize named as-
  • Rabindranath Tagore(1913)
  • C.V. Raman(1930)
  • Mother Teresa(1979)
  • Amartya Sen(1998)
  • Kailash Satyarthi(2014)
  • Har Gobind Khorana(1968)
  • Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar(1983)
  • Venki Ramakrishnan(2009)
  • Abhijit Banerjee(2019)