300 Firsts

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Awards


First Nobel prize winner for literature
Sully Prudhomme, France (1901)

First Nobel prize winner for peace
Jean Henri Dunant, Switzerland & Frederic Passy, France (1901)

First Nobel prize winner for economics
Ragnar Frisch, Norway & Jan Tinbergen, Netherlands (1969)

First person to win two Nobel Prizes
Marie Sklodowska Curie ( first in Physics, 1903 and the second in Chemistry, 1911)

First black to receive the Nobel Peace prize
Ralph Bunche(1950)

First Indian to win Nobel Prize in literature
Rabindranath Tagore. He was also the first Asian to get the prize (1913)

First Indian to win Booker Prize
Arundhati Roy. For ‘The Good of small things’ (1997)

First Indians to win Bharat Ratna
Dr.S.Rahakrishnan, C.Rajagopalachari, and Dr. C.V. Raman (1954)

First woman Nobel prize winner
Marie Sklodowska Curie, Physics. She is the first to win Physics Nobel (1903).

First woman Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry
Marie Sklodowska Curie (1911)

First woman to win the Jnanpith
Ashapurna Devi (1976)

First woman to receive Bharat Ratna
Indira Gandhi (1971)