List of Bengali Nobel laureates
Since the inauguration of Nobel Prize in 1901, until 2020, three Bengali persons and one Bengali origin person—four in all, have won this award. The first Bengali as well as the first Asian to be awarded the Nobel Prize in 1913, was Rabindranath Tagore (born in CALCUTTA India, now KOLKATA), in literature.[1] Later in 1998, Amartya Sen (born in India) in Economics, in 2006 Muhammad Yunus (born in British India, now Bangladesh) in Peace,[2] and in 2019 Abhijit Banerjee (born in India to Marathi mother, Nirmala Patankar, and Bengali father, Dipak Banerjee), won this award in Economics.[3]
List
Year | Picture | Name | Country | The reason for the award is |
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1913 | ![]() | Rabindranath Tagore | ![]() British Raj | Won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his extremely sensitive, refined, and well-written line of poetry, through which he has been able to express his poetic thinking in his own English words, which has become a part of Western literature. |
1998 | ![]() | Amartya Sen | ![]() India | Awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for fundamental contribution to the welfare economy |
2006 | ![]() | Muhammad Yunus | ![]() Bangladesh | Muhammad Yunus and his founding Grameen Bank jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for the contribution of the concept of the microcredit concept. |
2019 | ![]() | Abhijit Banerjee | ![]() USA |
Awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his outstanding work to eradicate poverty in the field of Economics[4] |
Nominees
Image | Laureate | Born | Died | Years Nominated | Citation | Nominator(s) |
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Meghnad Saha | 6 October 1893 Dhaka, Bangladesh |
16 February 1956 New Delhi |
1930, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1951, 1955 | "for developing the Saha ionization equation, used to describe chemical and physical conditions in stars."[5] |
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Satyendra Nath Bose | 1 January 1894 Kolkata, West Bengal |
4 February 1974 Kolkata, West Bengal |
1956, 1959, 1962, 1968, 1969 | "for developing the foundation for Bose statistics and the theory of the Bose condensate in quantum mechanics."[6] |
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Rabindranath Tagore | 7 May 1861 Kolkata, West Bengal |
7 August 1941 Kolkata, West Bengal |
1913 | [7] | Thomas Sturge Moore (1870–1944) |
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Rabindranath Datta | 1 October 1883 Kolkata, West Bengal |
6 July 1917 Kolkata, West Bengal |
1916 | [8] |
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Hari Mohan Banerjee | 1936 | [9] | Devadatta Ramakrishna Bhandarkar (1875–1950) | ||
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Bensadhar Majumdar | 1937, 1939 | [10] |
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Sri Aurobindo Ghose | 15 August 1872 Kolkata, West Bengal |
5 December 1950 Pondicherry, Union Territory of Puducherry |
1943 | [11] | Francis Younghusband (1863–1942) |
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Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay | 27 July 1898 Labhpur, West Bengal |
14 September 1971 Kolkata, West Bengal |
1971 | [12] | Krishna Kripalani (1907–1992) |
Notes
- Born in Mumbai brought up in Kolkata
References
- "Rabindranath Tagore: First Indian to be Honoured with Nobel Prize". News18. 7 October 2020. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
- "Bangladesh's 'banker to the poor' wins peace Nobel". gulfnews.com. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
- "3 Bengalis won the Nobel. Abhijit Banerjee first to wear dhoti". India Today. 11 December 2019. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
- "Another Bengali wins Nobel Economics Prize". Daily Sun. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
- Nomination archive – Meghnad N Saha nobelprize.org
- Nomination archive – Satyendra Nath Bose nobelprize.org
- Nomination archive – Rabindranath Tagore nobelprize.org
- Nomination archive – Roby Datta nobelprize.org
- Nomination archive – Hari Mohan Banerjee nobelprize.org
- Nomination archive – Bensadhar Majumdar nobelprize.org
- Nomination archive – Sri Aurobindo nobelprize.org
- Nomination archive – Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay nobelprize.org
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