Nobel Prize and Indian Nobel prize Winners

 NOBEL PRIZE 

It is the most coveted international award of the world.

It was instituted by the inventor of dynamite, Alfred Bernard Nobel(1833-96) The award is given on December 10, which is death anniversary of its founder. Nobel made a trust from the money that he earned through the patent of his invention whose interest it used to give money for Nobel Prizes.

Nobel Prize is given every year to those eminent persons who have made pioneering achievements in the field of Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Peace, Literature and Economics. Apart from Economics, all other categories have been given since 1901. Economics Nobel Prize was instituted in 1967 and was first given in 1969.   

 INDIAN NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS

NAME	FIELD	YEAR
Rabindranath Tagore	Literature	1913
Dr. C.V. Raman	Physics	1930
Dr. Hargovind Khurana	Medicine	1968
Mother Teresa	Peace	1979
Dr. S. Chandrashekhar	Physics	1983
Dr. Amartya Sen	Economics	1999
V. S. Nalpaul	Literature	2001
Kailash Satyarthi	Peace	2014