In 1913 Rabindranath Tagore (literature) became the first Indian to win the Nobel.
Sir C V Raman was awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize in Physics in the year 1930 for giving a detailed description and reason for the scattering of particles of light.
In 2014, Kailash Satyarthi received the Nobel Prize for his rights in 'Child Labor Abolition and Education'.
Har Gobind Khurana , who won the Nobel in 1968 , worked on the electron.
Khurana received the Nobel for his role in the genetic code and its protein synthesis.​