List of Indian Nobel laureates
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File:Rabindranath Tagore in 1909.jpg was the first person of Indian origin and also first Asian to be awarded with the Nobel Prize.{{Cite web |last=Kasturi |first=Charu Sudan |date=25 August 2013 |title=Nobel tribute to Tagore – Stockholm to Calcutta, Sweden lines up centenary events |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/nobel-tribute-to-tagore-stockholm-to-calcutta-sweden-lines-up-centenary-events/cid/268409 |access-date=4 July 2024 |publisher=The Telegraph India |archive-date=5 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181205103452/https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/nobel-tribute-to-tagore-stockholm-to-calcutta-sweden-lines-up-centenary-events/cid/268409 |url-status=live }} He received the prize for Literature in 1913.|alt=Picture of Rabindranath Tagore, the first Indian Nobel Laureate.]]
The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed on "those who conferred the greatest benefit on humankind" in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economic Sciences,{{efn-ua|The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences is an additional prize that was established in 1968 by the Bank of Sweden and was first awarded in 1969. Although not technically a Nobel Prize, it is identified with the award and the winners are announced with the Nobel Prize recipients, and the Prize in Economic Sciences is presented at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony.}}{{Cite web |title=Nobel Prizes–Britannica |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/416856/Nobel-Prize |access-date=4 July 2024 |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |archive-date=29 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150429230820/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/416856/Nobel-Prize |url-status=live }} instituted by Alfred Nobel's last will, which specified that a part of his fortune be used to create the prizes. Each laureate (recipient) receives a gold medal, a diploma and a sum of money, which is decided annually by the Nobel Foundation.{{Cite web |title=The Nobel Prize |url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/ |access-date=4 July 2024 |publisher=Nobel Foundation |archive-date=15 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081015012957/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/ |url-status=live }} The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel; the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; the Swedish Academy awards the Nobel Prize in Literature; and the Norwegian Nobel Committee awards the Nobel Peace Prize. They are widely recognised as one of the most prestigious honours awarded in the aforementioned fields.{{Cite web |date=7 December 2018 |title=A short guide to the Nobel Prize |url=https://sweden.se/society/the-nobel-prize/ |access-date=4 July 2024 |publisher=Swedish Institute |archive-date=24 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190124203541/https://sweden.se/society/the-nobel-prize/ |url-status=live }}
First instituted in 1901, the Nobel Prize has been awarded to a total of 989 individuals (930 men and 59 women) and 30 organisations {{as of|2022|lc=y}}.{{Cite web |last=Media |first=Nobel |date=22 November 2018 |title=Nobel Prize facts |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/facts/nobel-prize-facts/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106004028/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/facts/nobel-prize-facts/ |archive-date=6 November 2018 |access-date=22 November 2018 |publisher=Nobel Foundation}} Among the recipients, 12 are Indians of which 5 are Indian citizens and 7 are of Indian ancestry or residency. Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian citizen to be awarded and also first Asian to be awarded in 1913. Mother Teresa is the only woman among the list of recipients.{{Cite news |date=10 October 2014 |title=From 1913 to 2014: Indian Nobel Prize winners |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/from-1913-to-2014-indian-nobel-prize-winners/article6489283.ece?mstac=0#im-image-0 |url-status=live |access-date=14 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230921161050/https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/Indian-Nobel-Prize-winners-In-pictures/article60649665.ece#im-image-0 |archive-date=21 September 2023}} Sri Aurobindo, the Indian poet, philosopher, nationalist and developer of Integral yoga, was nominated unsuccessfully for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1943 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950.{{Cite web |last=Rajinder Singh |date=Sep 2012 |title=Aurobindo Gosh's Nobel nomination |url=http://www.scienceandculture-isna.org/sep-oct-2012/10_Opinion_India_s_Literature_Nobel_Prize_Nominators_and_Nominees_and_Kolkata_s_Contribution_by_Rajinder_Singh_Pg.440.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808064120/http://www.scienceandculture-isna.org/sep-oct-2012/10_Opinion_India_s_Literature_Nobel_Prize_Nominators_and_Nominees_and_Kolkata_s_Contribution_by_Rajinder_Singh_Pg.440.html |archive-date=8 August 2016 |access-date=7 November 2018 |publisher=Science and Culture |pages=442}}{{Cite web |last=Media |first=Nobel |date=22 November 2018 |title=Aurobindo Ghosh Nomination archive |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/redirector/?redir=archive/show_people.php&id=567 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181122173710/https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/redirector/?redir=archive%2Fshow_people.php&id=567 |archive-date=22 November 2018 |access-date=22 November 2018 |publisher=Nobel Foundation}}
On 1 December 1999, the Norwegian Nobel Committee confirmed that Mahatma Gandhi was nominated unsuccessfully for the Peace Prize five times (from 1937 to 1939, in 1947 and a few days before he was assassinated in January 1948).{{Cite book |last=Levinovitz, Agneta Wallin |title=The Nobel Prize: The First 100 Years |publisher=Imperial College Press, London |year=2001 |isbn=9789810246655 |location=London |pages=181–186 |author-link=#Levinovitz69}} In 2006, Geir Lundestad, the Secretary of Norwegian Nobel Committee, cited it as "the greatest omission in our 106-year history".{{Cite web |last=Tønnesson |first=Øyvind |date=1 December 1999 |title=Mahatma Gandhi, the Missing Laureate |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/themes/peace/gandhi/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170602181245/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/themes/peace/gandhi/index.html |archive-date=2 June 2017 |access-date=7 November 2018 |publisher=Nobel Foundation}}{{Cite web |last=Ghosh |first=Avijit |date=17 October 2006 |title=We missed Mahatma Gandhi |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/We-missed-Mahatma-Gandhi/articleshow/2181375.cms |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220523225928/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/we-missed-mahatma-gandhi/articleshow/2181375.cms |archive-date=23 May 2022 |access-date=5 December 2018 |website=The Times of India}}{{Cite web |last=Wolchover |first=Natalie |date=10 May 2011 |title=No Peace for Gandhi |url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/44787416/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/top-nobel-prize-goof-ups/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181207155937/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/44787416/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/top-nobel-prize-goof-ups/ |archive-date=7 December 2018 |access-date=6 December 2018 |publisher=NBCNews}}
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