Multiple choice general knowledge

Who is the first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize?

  1. Sir C.V. Raman

  2. Mother Teresa

  3. Rabindranath Tagore

  4. [edit] Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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Explanation

Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian to receive a Nobel Prize in 1913 for Literature for his collection of poems 'Gitanjali'. C.V. Raman received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930, making him the first Indian scientist to win a Nobel, but not the first Indian overall. Mother Teresa received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983.

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