Nobel Prize Winners List 2022
Here is the complete list of Nobel Prize winners from India or Indian Origin. This list is also helpful for competitive exams like UPSC, Bank, Clerk, SSC, Civil Service Examination, IBPS, etc.
The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed on “those who conferred the greatest benefit on humankind” in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences.
Nobel Prize 2022 Winners List
| Nobel Prize category | Winner Name |
| Physics | Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann – for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability reliably predicting global warming.
Giorgio Parisi – for the discovery of interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales. |
| Chemistry | Benjamin List and David MacMillan – for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis. |
| Physiology or Medicine | David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian– for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch. |
| Literature | Abdulrazak Gurnah – for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents. |
| Peace | Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov – for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace. |
Nobel Prize 2021 Winners List – Indian / Indian Origin
| Person | Field | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Rabindranath Tagore | Literature | 1913 |
| C.V. Raman | Physics | 1930 |
| Har Gobind Khorana* | Medicine | 1968 |
| Mother Teresa | Peace | 1979 |
| Subrahmanyam Chandrasekhar | Physics | 1983 |
| Amartya Sen | Economic Sciences | 1998 |
| Venkatraman Ramakrishnan** | Chemistry | 2009 |
| Kailash Satyarthi# | Peace | 2014 |
| Abhijit Banerjee$ | Economic Sciences | 2019 |
Winners of Nobel Prize, 2020- 2021
| Fields | Nobel Laureates 2020-21 | Contributions by the Nobel Laureates |
|---|---|---|
| Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology | Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice | Discovery of the Hepatitis C virus |
| Nobel Prize in Physics | Roger Penrose | For the discovery of the black hole formation which is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity |
| Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez | For discovering supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy | |
| Nobel Prize in Chemistry | Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna | On discovering the method for genome editing and development of CRISPR-Cas9 |
| Nobel Prize in Literature | Louise Gluck | For her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal |
| Nobel Peace Prize | World Food Programme (WFP) | For its efforts to combat the surge in Global hunger amidst coronavirus pandemic, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict. |
| Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences | Paul R. Milgrom, Robert B. Wilson | For improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats. |
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