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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 ...
India: Infosys Prize in Mathematical Science: Infosys Science Foundation: Outstanding achievements of contemporary researchers and scientists across six categories, including Mathematical Sciences India: Ramanujan Prize: Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy: Young mathematician, for outstanding work in Ramanujan's fields of ...
The Fields Medal has for a long time been regarded as the most prestigious award in the field of mathematics and is often described as the Nobel Prize of Mathematics. [2] [3] [4] Unlike the Nobel Prize, the Fields Medal is only awarded every four years. The Fields Medal also has an age limit: a recipient must be under age 40 on 1 January of the ...
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 ...
In 1930, C. V. Raman became the first Asian recipient of a Nobel Prize in one of the sciences. The most Nobel Prizes awarded to Asians in a single year was in 2014, when five Asians became laureates. The most recent Asian laureates, South Korean writer Han Kang, Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo, and Turkish-American economist Daron Acemoglu ...
He was awarded the Abel Prize in 2007 for his work on large deviations with Monroe D Donsker. [11] [17] In 2008, the Government of India awarded him the Padma Bhushan. [18] and in 2023, he was awarded India's second highest civilian honor Padma Vibhushan.
In 2018, he was awarded the Fields Medal, [5] [26] commonly described as the Nobel Prize of mathematics, [27] becoming the second Australian (after Terence Tao) [7] and the second person of Indian descent (after Manjul Bhargava) [8] to be so honoured. The short citation for the medal declared that Venkatesh was being honoured for "his synthesis ...
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