Yes, more over he is the first Asian to receive the prize and also he is the first non-white man to get this.
rabintharanath tagore was the first indian to get nobel prize for his poetry.cv.Raman was the first indian to get nobel prize for science.
Mother Teressa was the first Indian to get the Nobel prize for Peace.
Indian-born Englishman Ronald Ross won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1902.
Actually, the first Indian to receive a Nobel Prize was Rudyard Kipling in 1907 for literature. Rabindranath Tagore was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.
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first Nobel prize for Asian literature
Sir C.V. Raman won the 1929 Nobel Prize in physics.
Ramakrishnan Venkataraman
Dr. Amartya Sen is the first Indian to get a Nobel Prize for Economics.
in 1913, Rabindranath Tagore was the first Asian Nobel Prize winner.
Har Gobind Khorana, in 1968.
Har Gobind Khorana