Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian to receive a Nobel Prize. He was born in Kolkata in 1861 and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for his work Geetanjali, a collection of poems. Tagore founded Santiniketan, later known as Vishwabharati University, in 1901. He wrote many love lyrics and poems, and was also the author of India's National Anthem.

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2. Winning a Nobel Prize is a life-changing honour.
He was born on 21 October 1833 in Stockholm,
Sweden, into a family of engineers.
He was a chemist, engineer, and inventor.
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4. RABINDRANATH TAGORE (1861-1941) :
Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian ever to
receive a Nobel Prize.
Popularly known as Gurudev, India’s Poet
Laureate Tagore was born on 7 May 1861 in
Kolkata.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in
recognition of his work Geetanjali, a collection of
poems, in 1913.
Tagore wrote many love lyrics. Geetanjali and
Sadhana are among his important works.
The poet, dramatist and novelist is also the author
of India’s National Anthem.
In 1901 he founded the famous Santiniketan
which later came to be known as Vishwabharati
University.

5. CHANDRASHEKAR VENKATARAMAN (1888-1970) :
India’s first Nobel Prize for Physics was claimed in
1930 by the renowned physicist Sir C.V. Raman.
Born at Thiruvanaikkaval near iruchirapalli in Tamil
Nadu, Raman studied at Presidency College, Chennai.
Later, he served as Professor of Physics at Calcutta
University.
Recipient of many honors and awards, including the
title of ‘Sir’, Sir C.V. Raman received the Nobel Prize for
an important optics research, in which he discovered
that diffused light contained rays of other wavelengths
—what is now popularly known as Raman Effect.
His theory discovered in 1928 explains the change in
the frequency of light passing through a transparent
medium.

6. RABINDRANATH TAGORE (1861-1941) :
Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian ever to
receive a Nobel Prize.
Popularly known as Gurudev, India’s Poet
Laureate Tagore was born on 7 May 1861 in
Kolkata.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in
recognition of his work Geetanjali, a collection of
poems, in 1913.
Tagore wrote many love lyrics. Geetanjali and
Sadhana are among his important works.
The poet, dramatist and novelist is also the author
of India’s National Anthem.
In 1901 he founded the famous Santiniketan
which later came to be known as Vishwabharati
University.