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The first Noble Prize to be awarded to a South Asian was awarded to Rabindranath Tagore.

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• Albert Einstein received the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the Law of the photoelectric effect
• The 1921 prize was actually awarded in 1922.

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• Seven Muslims have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize so far.
• They are recognized for efforts in peace, human rights, and conflict resolution.

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1. Anwar Sadat (Egypt) – 1978
2. Yasser Arafat (Palestine) – 1994
3. Shirin Ebadi (Iran) – 2003
4. Mohamed ElBaradei (Egypt) – 2005
5. Tawakkol Karman (Yemen) – 2011
6. Malala Yousafzai (Pakistan) – 2014
7. Abiy Ahmed (Ethiopia) – 2019

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2022 Nobel Peace Prize Recipients

• Ales Bialiatski – Belarus
• Memorial Organization – Russia
• Center for Civil Liberties – Ukraine

Last verified on 09-03-2026

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• The International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) is a humanitarian organization founded in 1863 in Geneva, Switzerland.

It has won the Nobel Peace Prize three times:

1. 1917 – For relief efforts during World War I
2. 1944 – For relief work during World War II
3. 1963 – On the occasion of 100th anniversary of its founding

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• Henri Dunant, the founder, won the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901.

Last verified on 11-03-2026

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• Annie Ernaux is a famous writer from France.
• She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2022.
• The award recognized her work exploring memory, identity, and social inequality.
• Her writings are often based on autobiographical experiences.

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• 2021: Abdulrazak Gurnah – Tanzania/UK
• 2020: Louise Glück – USA
• 2019: Peter Handke – Austria
• 2018: Olga Tokarczuk – Poland

Last verified on 10-03-2026

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2022 Nobel Peace Prize Recipients

• Ales Bialiatski – Belarus
• Memorial Organization – Russia
• Center for Civil Liberties – Ukraine

Last verified on 09-03-2026

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All Nobel Prizes, except for the Peace Prize, are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden.

The ceremony for the Peace Prize is held at Oslo City Hall. 

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The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine recognized work on peripheral immune tolerance

Awarded jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguch

They identified regulatory T cells (Tregs)—the immune system’s "security guards"—and the FOXP3 gene,

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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