Rabindranath Tagore became the first Indian citizen and the first Asian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.
In 1930, CV Raman received Nobel Prize in Physics.
Biochemist Har Gobind Khorana shared the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Robert Holley and Marshall Nirenberg "for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis."
Mother Teresa's fight to end poverty led to her being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
Astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, known as ‘Chandra’, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the evolution of stars in 1983.
In 1998, Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 'for his contributions to welfare economics'. Rabindranath Tagore had suggested Amartya Sen's unusual first name to his mother, which means immortal.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009.
Kailash Satyarthi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014. Since 1980, he has freed thousands of children from slave-like conditions and was awarded the Nobel Prize for his peaceful struggle to stop children being exploited.
In 2019, colleagues and married couple Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee received the news that they had been awarded the 2019 Prize in Economic Sciences. They became the fifth couple to share a prize.