South Asia has produced several individuals who have made significant contributions to various fields and have been recognized with the prestigious Nobel Prize.[1] These laureates come from diverse backgrounds and have achieved excellence in their respective areas of expertise.[2][3][4][5]
Summary
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Nobel Prizes by country and category
editBangladesh
edit- Muhammad Yunus, Peace, 2006
India
edit- Abhijit Banerjee*, Economics, 2019
- Kailash Satyarthi, Peace, 2014
- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan*, Chemistry, 2009
- Amartya Sen, Economics, 1998
- Subramanyan Chandrasekhar*, Physics, 1983
- Har Gobind Khorana*, Physiology or Medicine, 1968
- C. V. Raman, Physics, 1930
- Rabindranath Tagore ', Literature, 1913
Pakistan
edit- Abdus Salam, Physics, 1979
- Malala Yousafzai, Peace, 2014
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Rabindranath Tagore: First Indian to be Honoured with Nobel Prize". News18. 30 September 2024. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
- ^ "Bangladesh's 'banker to the poor' wins peace Nobel". gulfnews.com. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979". Nobel Foundation. Archived from the original on 2018-12-26. Retrieved 9 October 2008.
- ^ Arun Agarwal (2008). Nobel Prize Winners in Physics. APH Publishing. pp. 234–. ISBN 978-81-7648-743-6. Archived from the original on 2023-10-13. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam won the 1979 Nobel Prize in physics. He won the award for his work in developing a unification hypothesis concerning electromagnetic and weak interactions between atomic particles.
- ^ "By winning the Nobel prize, Malala joins Pakistan's loneliest club". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2015-11-18. Retrieved 30 September 2024.