List of Bengali Nobel laureates

Since the inauguration of Nobel Prize in 1901, until 2020, 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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1913 |  | Rabindranath Tagore (Khulna district, Bengal, now Bangladesh) |
British India | Won the Nobel Prize in 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 (Dhaka district, Bengal, now Bangladesh) |
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 (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)

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| Meghnad Saha | 6 October 1893
Dhaka, 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] |

* Debendra Mohan Bose (1885–1975)
* Sisir Kumar Mitra (1890–1963)
* Arthur Compton (1892–1962)

| 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] |

* Kedareswar Banerjee (1900–1975)
* Daulat Singh Kothari (1906–1993)
* Shibapratim Bagchi (?)
* Anindya Dutta (?)
* M. G. K. Menon (1928–2016)

| 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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* C. V. Raman (1930)

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