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."
Mother Teressa was the first Indian to get the Nobel prize for Peace.
Marie Curie was awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics. She was the sole winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and she is the only woman to win the award in two different fields.
Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen were the first to win the Nobel prize in economics in 1969.
Desmond Tutu, the first South African to win a Nobel prize, won it in 1984.
Wangari Maathai was the first African womand and the first Kenyan to win a Nobel prize. She won the Peace prize in 2004, for her environmental work.
Marie Curie won her first Nobel Prize in 1903.
Luiz Alvarez was the first Hispanic to win the Nobel Prize in the year 1869
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was the first person to ever win the nobel prize in physics in 1901 for inventing the X-ray.
The first psychologist to win the Nobel Prize was Daniel Kahneman in 2002 for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making.
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was the first person to ever win the nobel prize in physics in 1901 for inventing the X-ray.
She did not win the Nobel Peace prize