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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

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First Nobel Prize in Economics – Key Points

Year & Recipients: 1969, awarded to Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen.

Reason: For developing and applying dynamic models to analyze economic processes.

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Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen received the first Nobel Prize in Physics (1901).

He discovered X-rays, which revolutionized medical diagnosis.

X-rays are widely used in hospitals to detect bone fractures.

The Nobel Prizes were established by Alfred Nobel.

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The International Committee of the Red Cross was declared the winner of the Peace Prize both in 1917 and in 1944. 

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Pakistan won 2 gold medals in the 2010 Commonwealth Games held in India, both in wrestling events.

The Pakistan ranked 17th overall, with a total of 5 medals:

2 gold,

1 silver

 2 bronze.

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Faiz was the first Asian poet to be awarded the Lenin Peace Prize (1962) by the Soviet Union 

was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature.

Faiz Ahmad Faiz is also the author of Urdu and Punjabi literature.

Born: February 13, 1911, Narowal

Died: November 20, 1984, in Lahore

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Name only two Pakistani who got Lenin Prize.

Faiz Ahmad Faiz revived Lenin Prize in 1962.

 Abdul Satar Edhi revived Lenin Prize in 1988.

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