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Rabindranath Tagore was the first person of Indian origin and also first Asian to be awarded with the Nobel Prize. [1] 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, [A ...
At least 25 laureates have received the Nobel Prize for contributions in the field of organic chemistry, more than any other field of chemistry. [5] Two Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry, Germans Richard Kuhn (1938) and Adolf Butenandt (1939), were not allowed by their government to accept the prize. They would later receive a medal and ...
This is a list of Nobel Prize laureates by country. Listings for Economics refer to the related Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The Nobel Prizes and the Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded 577 times to 889 recipients, of which 26 awards (all Peace Prizes) were to organizations. Due to some recipients receiving multiple ...
Lists of Nobel laureates cover winners of Nobel Prizes for outstanding contributions for humanity in chemistry, literature, peace, physics, and physiology or medicine. The lists are organized by prize, by ethnicity, by origination and by nationality.
First Asian and Indian Nobel laureate in Science 1949 Hideki Yukawa Japan: Physics: First Japanese Nobel laureate 1957 Chen Ning Yang China: Physics: First Chinese Nobel laureate 1957 Tsung-Dao Lee China: Physics: First Chinese Nobel laureate 1965 Shin'ichiro Tomonaga Japan: Physics: 1973 Leo Esaki Japan: Physics: 1976 Samuel C. C. Ting United ...
Among the 892 Nobel laureates, 48 have been women; the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize was Marie Curie, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. [12] She was also the first person (male or female) to be awarded two Nobel Prizes, the second award being the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, given in 1911. [11]
First woman nominated and first woman to win the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry [w] and Laureate of 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics too [61] Paul Ehrlich: March 14, 1854 Strzelin, Poland August 20, 1915 Bad Homburg, Germany 1911 Shared the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Il.Il.Metchnikoff, [62] later nominated for "Work on ...
Pages in category "Indian Nobel laureates" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...