Test: Nobel Laureates of India - Class 5 MCQ

Abhijit Banerjee was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2019 for his experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.

Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, along with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada Yonath, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009 for their studies of the structure and function of the ribosome.

Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 for his contributions to welfare economics.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, along with William A. Fowler, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983 for their theoretical studies of the important physical processes of star structure and evolution.

Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her work in bringing help to suffering humanity. She was the first Indian woman to receive this honor.

Har Gobind Khurana, along with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley, received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1968 for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function of protein synthesis.

CV Raman was the first Indian scientist to win a Nobel Prize. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for his work on the scattering of light and the discovery of the effect named after him, Raman scattering.

Rabindranath Tagore was the first Asian and Indian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for his profoundly sensitive, fresh, and beautiful verse.

Amartya Sen is an economist and philosopher known for his contributions to welfare economics, and he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 for his work in this field.