Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

First Indian to get the Nobel Prize

  1. Ronald Ross

  2. C V Raman

  3. Rabindranatha Tagor

  4. H B Khorana
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Explanation

Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian (and first Asian) to win the Nobel Prize in 1913 for Literature, specifically for 'Gitanjali'. This was before India's independence. Ronald Ross was born in India but was British; C.V. Raman won in 1930; Hargobind Khorana won in 1968 but was a US citizen by then.

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