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Nobel Prize Winners List 2021

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The Nobel Prize is awarded for outstanding work in the fields of physics, chemistry, literature, peace, physiology or medicine and economics. The table below highlights the Nobel Laureates who were conferred with the prestigious title in the year 2021.

Nobel Prize 2021 – Complete Winner List

First Nobel Prize Laureate

• The first Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen in 1969.
• The first Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Wilhelm Rontgen’s discovery of X-rays and Philipp Lenard’s work on cathode rays.
• The first Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to German Microbiologist Emil von Behring.
• The first Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Jacobus H. van ‘t Hoff.
• The first Nobel Prize in Peace was awarded jointly to Jean Henri Dunant (Founder of the International Red Cross Movement) and pacifist Frederic Passy (Founder of the Peace League).
• The first Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Sully Prudhomme.

Indian Nobel Prize

• Till now, 12 Indians (5 Indian citizens and 7 of Indian origin or residency) have been awarded Nobel Prize
• The first person of Indian origin and also first Asian to be awarded the Nobel Prize was Rabindranath Tagore for his works “Gitanjali” in 1913.
• First Indian recipient of Nobel Prize in Physics was C. V. Raman for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him” in 1930.
• First Indian recipient of Nobel Prize for Peace was Mother Teresa in 1979.
• First Indian recipient of Nobel Prize in Economics was Amartya Sen in 1998.
• First Indian recipient of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was Har Gobind Khorana for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis in 1968.
• First Indian recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry was Venkatraman Ramakrishnan for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome in 2009.
• The only woman from India in the list of Nobel Prize recipient is Mother Teresa.