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Gobind Behari Lal, a reporter for Universal Service, was the first Indian to win a Pulitzer Prize. He shared the 1937 award for Reporting with John J. O'Neill (New York Herald Tribune), William L. Laurence (The New York Times), Howard W. Blakeslee (Associated Press) and David Dietz (Scripps-Howard News Service) for their coverage of science at the tercentenary (300th Anniversary) of Harvard University.
Lal later became Science Editor (emeritus) for Hearst newspapers, and continued publishing until a few weeks before his death from cancer at age 92.
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