Rabindra Nath Tagore
The first Asian to win a Nobel Prize was Rabindranath Tagore from India. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for his work "Gitanjali."
If India is considered a subcontinent, the Kawabata is the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968. If not then Rabindhranadh Tagore is the first Asian to win in 1916.
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Rabindhranadh Tagore, the great Indian poet
The author of ' Gitanjali ' is Rabindranath Tagore. Gitanjali bought him the Nobel prize for literature. Thus, he became the first Asian to receive Nobel Prize.
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in 1913, Rabindranath Tagore was the first Asian Nobel Prize winner.
Mother Teressa was the first Indian to get the Nobel prize for Peace.
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.
The first Nobel Prize winner from Turkey was Orhan Pamuk. He won the 2006 Nobel prize in literature.
S.Chandra sekar received the 1983 Nobel Prize in physics. Chandra's uncle, SIR.C.V.RAman, received the 1930 Nobel Prize in physics for discovering the Raman effect, which describes the diffraction of light by crystals. Raman was the first Asian to receive a Nobel Prize in science.
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