Nobel Laureates
Five Nobel Prize winners have been associated with Kolkata:
- Sir Ronald Ross (1902, Medicine)
- Rabindranath Tagore (1913, Literature; first Asian to win the Nobel Prize)
- C V Raman (1930, Physics)
- Mother Teresa (1979, Peace)
- Amartya Sen (1998, Economics)
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