66 - Indian Nobel Prize Winners

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Indian Nobel Prize Winners

Only eight Indians have won the Nobel Prize (including the Prize for Economics), so far. While Tagore's Gitanjali has inspired millions, Kailash Satyarthi's quiet work was rewarded to bring two neighbours closer in their fight against child labour.

1. Rabindranath Tagore, Literature, 1913.
2. C.V. Raman, Physics, 1930.
3. Hargobind Khorana(Indian by birth), Physiology or Medicine, 1968.
4. Mother Teresa, Peace, 1979.
5. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar(Indian by birth), Physics, 1983.
6. Amartya Sen(Indian by birth), Economic Sciences, 1998.
7. V Ramakrishnan,Chemistry,2009
8. Kailash Satyarthi ,Peace,2014