GK QUESTION#647
Who was the first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize?
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B. Rabindranath Tagore
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Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature (1913) for Gitanjali. Hargobind Khorana received the Nobel in Medicine (1968) for decoding the genetic code. C.V. Raman won the Nobel in Physics (1930) for the Raman Effect, and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan won the Nobel in Chemistry (2009) for ribosome structure studies.