The first Nobel Prize awarded to an Indian went to

C. V. Raman, in Physics, in 1930Correct answerYour answerMother Teresa, for Peace, in 1979Correct answerYour answerHar Gobind Khorana, in Physiology or Medicine, in 1968Correct answerYour answerRabindranath Tagore, in Literature, in 1913Correct answerYour answer

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Rabindranath Tagore received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913, and took the whole prize rather than a share of it.
It was the first Nobel Prize to an Indian and the first to anyone from Asia.
C. V. Raman's Physics prize of 1930 came seventeen years later.

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The prize motivation is worth reading once: it praises the verse Tagore recast in his own English words. The citation is about the English, which surprises most people who expect it to name a Bengali book.

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