List of Bengali Nobel laureates

Since the inauguration of Nobel Prize in 1901, until 2024, 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 British India, now India), in literature.[1] Later in 1998, Amartya Sen (born in British India, now India) in Economics, in 2006 Muhammad Yunus (born in British India, now Bangladesh) in Peace,[2] and in 2019 Abhijit Banerjee (born in India), won this award in Economics.[3]

List

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Year Picture Name Country The reason for the award is
1913 Rabindranath Tagore (Kolkata, West Bengal, India)
India		 Won the Nobel Prize 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 (Kolkata, West Bengal, India)
India		 Awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for fundamental contribution to the welfare economy
2006 Muhammad Yunus (Chattogram district, Bengal, now Bangladesh)
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 FT Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2011 (cropped) Abhijit Banerjee (Hooghly district, West Bengal)
USA

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Awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his outstanding work to eradicate poverty in the field of Economics[4]

Nominees

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Image Laureate Born Died Years Nominated Citation Nominator(s)
Meghnad Saha 6 October 1893
Dhaka, then India, present day of 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]
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]
Rabindranath Tagore 7 May 1861
Kolkata, West Bengal 		7 August 1941
Kolkata, West Bengal 		1913 [7] Thomas Sturge Moore (1870–1944)
Rabindranath Datta 1 October 1883
Kolkata, West Bengal 		6 July 1917
Kolkata, West Bengal 		1916 [8]
  • Mano Gangedy (?)
  • Raya Yatindra Chondhury (?)
Hari Mohan Banerjee 1936 [9] Devadatta Ramakrishna Bhandarkar (1875–1950)
Bensadhar Majumdar 1937, 1939 [10]
  • Sen Satyendranath (1909–?)
  • Mukundadeb Chatterjee (?)
Sri Aurobindo Ghose 15 August 1872
Kolkata, West Bengal 		5 December 1950
Pondicherry, Union Territory of Puducherry 		1943 [11] Francis Younghusband (1863–1942)
Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay 27 July 1898
Labhpur, West Bengal 		14 September 1971
Kolkata, West Bengal 		1971 [12] Krishna Kripalani (1907–1992)

Notes

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  1. ^ Born in Mumbai brought up in Kolkata

References

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  1. ^ "Rabindranath Tagore: First Indian to be Honoured with Nobel Prize". News18. 7 October 2020. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  2. ^ "Bangladesh's 'banker to the poor' wins peace Nobel". gulfnews.com. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  3. ^ "3 Bengalis won the Nobel. Abhijit Banerjee first to wear dhoti". India Today. 11 December 2019. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  4. ^ "Another Bengali wins Nobel Economics Prize". Daily Sun. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  5. ^ Nomination archive – Meghnad N Saha nobelprize.org
  6. ^ Nomination archive – Satyendra Nath Bose nobelprize.org
  7. ^ Nomination archive – Rabindranath Tagore nobelprize.org
  8. ^ Nomination archive – Roby Datta nobelprize.org
  9. ^ Nomination archive – Hari Mohan Banerjee nobelprize.org
  10. ^ Nomination archive – Bensadhar Majumdar nobelprize.org
  11. ^ Nomination archive – Sri Aurobindo nobelprize.org
  12. ^ Nomination archive – Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay nobelprize.org
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