Indian Nobel Laureates India

    Six Indians, either by birth or citizenship, have received the Nobel Prizes so far.

    1913 Rabindranath Tagore Literature - Gitanjali (1), (2)
    1930 Prof. C. V. Raman Physics - Raman Effect
    1968 Dr. Hargobind Khurana Medicine - Genetic Code
    1979 Mother Teresa* Peace
    1983 Prof. S. Chandrasekhar Physics - Chandrasekhar's Limit
    1998 Prof. Amartya Sen Economics - Welfare Economics

    * Mother Teresa became an Indian citizen in 1948.

    Why is there no Nobel Prize in Mathematics?

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