Question

Which of the following Indians won the Nobel Prize in Literature ?
1. Rabindranath Tagore
2. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
3. Mahatma Gandhi
4. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 1 : Rabindranath Tagore

The correct answer is Rabindranath Tagore.

• The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Rabindranath Tagore in 1913.
• Rabindranath Tagore
  • He was awarded the Nobel prize for Gitanjali.
  • He was a poet, short-story writer and song composer.
  • Birth- May 7, 1861.
  • Death- August 7, 1941.
  • In 1901 Tagore founded Shantiniketan which became Visva-Bharati University in 1921.
  • The first stanza of Rabindra Nath Tagore's song known as "Jana Gana Mana" is the National Anthem of India.

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• Nobel Prize
  • They are the most prestigious annual international awards.
  • The will of  Alfred Nobel (inventor of dynamite)  established the prizes in 1895.
  • The first distribution of the prizes took place on December 10, 1901.
  • Nobel Prize in Economics was established in 1968, First awarded in 1969.
  • The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize in Physics, Chemistry and Economic Sciences.
  • The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
  • The Swedish Academy grants the Nobel Prize in Literature.
  • Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
  • The Nobel Foundation is the owner and administrator of the funds.
    • It also serves as the joint administrative body of the prize-awarding institutions.

 

Indian winners of Nobel Prize:

Name	Field	Year
Rabindranath Tagore	Literature	1913
C.V. Raman	Physics	1930
Har Gobind Khorana	Medicine	1968
Mother Teresa	Peace	1979
Subrahmanyam Chandrasekhar	Physics	1983
Amartya Sen	Economic Sciences	1998
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan	Chemistry	2009
Kailash Satyarthi	Peace	2014
Abhijit Banerjee	Economic Sciences	2019