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The first woman to win a Nobel Prize was Marie Curie,

She won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903

 Two Nobel Prizes, one in Physics (1903) and one in Chemistry (1911).

She is best known for her work in radioactivity

She also discovered the elements radium and polonium.

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Amartya Sen is the Indian Nobel Prize winner associated with Economics.

He was awarded in 1998 for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory

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A. V. S. Naipaul was a Trinidadian-born Britis awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001.

C. C. V. Raman was an Indian physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for his discovery of the "Raman Effect

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• Winner: Abdulrazak Gurnah
  • Award: Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
  • Presented by: The Swedish Academy
  • Recognition: For “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee.”

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• The United States has the most Nobel Laureates.
• After the US, the United Kingdom (UK) has the second largest number of Nobel Prize winners.
• Nobel Prizes are awarded in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences.

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Alfred Nobel (a Swedish chemist) initiated Nobel Prize in:

• Peace
• Physics
• Chemistry
• Physiology or Medicine
• Literature

In 1901, Nobel Prize was first awarded in Stockholm, Sweden,

expected the Peace Prize in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway.

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Nobel Prize in Economics started in 1968

In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank) established the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize