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Who is the first Indian to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics?
1. Har Gobind Khorana
2. Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
3. Subramanyan Chandrasekhar
4. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

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Correct Answer - Option 2 : Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

The correct answer is Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman.

  • India's first physicist to win a Nobel Physics Prize in 1930, for his work on the scattering of light.
  • The discovery of the effect was named after him (Raman Effect).
  • He further established that a small portion of the scattered light acquires other wavelengths than that of the original light because some of the incoming photons' energy can be transferred to a molecule, giving it a higher level of energy.

Har Gobind Khorana
  • His work on electron diffraction got him the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
  • He shared the award with Robert W Holley and Marshall W Nirenberg for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis.
Subramanyan Chandrasekhar
  • In 1983, he bagged the Nobel Prize in Physics for theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars.
  • He shared the award with another physicist William Alfred Fowler.
  • His theory suggested that the star further collapses into a compact star known as a white dwarf.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • He received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome.
  • He shared the award with Thomas A Steitz and Ada E Yonath.

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