India’s first Nobel Prize was awarded in 1930 to Rabindranath Tagore for Literature. He was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of over 2,000 songs, plays, essays, novels, and poems, he became a spiritual and political leader for Indians, and remains one of the most influential figures in Bengali culture.
The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of physics. The prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to those who, in the preceding year, “shall have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind”.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. The prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to those who, in the preceding year, “shall have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind”.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded by the Karolinska Institutet to scientists in the various fields of physiology or medicine. The prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to those who, in the preceding year, “shall have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind”.
In conclusion, India’s first Nobel Prize was awarded in 1930 to Rabindranath Tagore for Literature.