Prelims: Current events of national and international importance | Awards
| Awardees | Categories & Year | Purpose | 
| Rabindranath Tagore | (Literature, 1913) | Awarded for Gitanjali, a collection of poems that brought Indian spirituality and lyricism to world literature. With this, Tagore became the first Asian Nobel laureate. | 
| CV Raman | (Physics, 1930) | Honoured for discovering the Raman Effect, explaining how light changes wavelength when it passes through a transparent material. | 
| Har Gobind Khorana | (Physiology or Medicine, 1968) | Shared the prize for decoding how genetic information in DNA controls protein synthesis. He also built the world’s first synthetic gene. | 
| Mother Teresa | (Peace, 1979) | Recognised for her humanitarian work through the Missionaries of Charity, caring for the poor and sick in Kolkata. | 
| Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | (Physics, 1983) | Awarded for his theory on the structure and evolution of stars, including the “Chandrasekhar limit.” | 
| Amartya Sen | (Economic Sciences, 1998) | Honoured for his contributions to welfare economics and his “capability approach” to measuring poverty and development. | 
| Venkatraman Ramakrishnan | (Chemistry, 2009) | Shared the prize for mapping the atomic structure of the ribosome, a discovery crucial to medical science. | 
| Kailash Satyarthi | (Peace, 2014) | Recognised for his decades-long fight against child labour and advocacy for children’s education. | 
| Abhijit Banerjee | (Economic Sciences, 2019) | Shared the prize for pioneering the use of field experiments to study and reduce global poverty. | 
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