Nobel Prize winners
from India.

Born in Mumbai, India. Recognized “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”.

• 2019Economic Sciences

Born in Santiniketan, India. Recognized “for his contributions to welfare economics”.

• 1998Economic Sciences

Born in Raipur, India. Recognized “for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis”.

• 1968Medicine

Born in Vidisha, India. Recognized “for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education”.

• 2014Peace

Born in Calcutta, India. Recognized “because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West”.

• 1913Literature

Born in Almora, India. Recognized “for his work on malaria, by which he has shown how it enters the organism and thereby has laid the foundation for successful research on this disease and methods of combating it”.

• 1902Medicine

Born in Bombay, India. Recognized “in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author”.

• 1907Literature

Born in Tiruchirappalli, India. Recognized “for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him”.

• 1930Physics

Born in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India. Recognized “for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome”.

• 2009Chemistry