First Nobel Prize Winners of different Countries

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Nobel Prize

The will of the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel established the prizes in 1895.
Noble Prize an international award which is given each year to “those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind.”
Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist most famously known for the invention of dynamite. He died in 1896. In his will, he bequeathed all of his “remaining realisable assets” to be used to establish five prizes which became known as “Nobel Prizes.” Nobel Prizes were first awarded in 1901.
First Indian Nobel Prize winner is Rabindhranath Tagore. He got this award in 1930.

The Prizes in Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics and Physiology or Medicine were first awarded in 1901.
The set of communities associated with the awards presentation are-
- - Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute (Physiology or Medicine)
  - Norwegian Nobel Committee (Peace)
  - Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Chemistry, Economic Sciences, Physics)
  - Swedish Academy (Literature)
  - The Sverige Riksbank Prize in Economics Science in Memory of Alfred Nobel was establish in 1986 by Bank of Sweden.

Following are the First Nobel Prize winners of different countries of continents.

Country	Subject	Winner	Year	Details
India	literature	Rabindranath Tagore	1913	He was also the first Asian to get this Prize.
Japan	Physics	Hideki Yukawa	1949
China	Physics	Chen Ning Yang and Tsung Dao Lee jointly	1957
Pakistan	Physics	Abdus Salam	1979
Mayanmar (Burma)	Peace	Aung San Suu Kyi	1991
Bangladesh	Peace	Muhammad Yunus	2006
Israel	Literature	Shmuel Yosef Agnon	1966
South Korea	Peace	Kim Dae Jung	2000
Palestine	Peace	Yasser Arafat	1994
Iran	Peace	Shirin Ebadi	2003
Turkiye	Literature	Orhan Pamuk	2006
Yemen	Peace	Tawakkul Karman	2011	She is also the first Arab woman to win the Nobel Prize.
East Timor	Peace	José Ramos-Horta and Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo	1996
Hong Kong	Physics	Charles K. Kao	2009
Iraq	Peace	Nadia Murad	2018
Lebanon	Physiology/ Medicine	Ardem Patapoutian	2021
Philippines	Peace	Maria Ressa	2021
Tibet	Peace	14th Dalai Lama	1989

Country	Subject	Winner	Year	Details
South Africa	Physiology/ Medicine	Max Theiler	1951	First person from Africa to win Nobel prize
Egypt	Peace	Anwar El Sadat	1978
Ethiopia	Peace	Abiy Ahmed Ali	2019
Nigeria	Literature	Wole Soyinka	1986
Ghana	Peace	Kofi Annan	2001
Kenya	Peace	Wangari Maathai	2004	She was also the first Black African woman to win Nobel Prize.
Morocco	Physics	Serge Haroche	2012
Democratic Republic of Congo	Peace	Denis Mukwege	2018

Country	Subject	Winner	Year	Details
Germany	Physics	Wilhelm Rontgen	1901
Germany	Medicine	Emil Adolf von Behring	1901
France	Literature	Sully Prudhomme	1901
France	Peace	Frédéric Passy	1901
Switzerland	Literature	Henry Dunant	1901
Netherland	Chemistry	Jacobus H Van’t Hoff	1901
Britain	Physiology/Medicine	Ronald Ross	1902
Sweden	Chemistry	Svante Arrhenius	1903
Denmark	Physiology/Medicine	Niels Ryberg Finsen	1903
Norway	Literature	Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson	1903
Scotland	Chemistry	William Ramsay	1904
Russia	Physiology/Medicine	Ivan Pavlov	1904
Spain	Literature	José Echegaray	1904
Poland	Literature	Henryk Sienkiewicz	1905
Austria	Peace	Bertha von Suttner	1905
Italy	Medicine	Camillo Golgi	1906
Italy	Literature	Giosuè Carducc	1906
Ireland	Literature	W. B. Yeats	1923
Greece	Literature	Giorgos Seferis	1963
Belarus	Physics	Zhores Alferov	2000
Belgium		Institut de Droit International	1904
Belgium	Peace	Auguste Beernaert	1909
Bulgaria	Literature	Elias Canetti	1981
Cyprus	Economics	Christopher A. Pissarides	2010
Hungary	Physics	Physics	1905
Iceland	Literature	Halldór Laxness	1955
Portugal	Physiology/Medicine	António Egas Moniz
Romania	Physiology/Medicine	George E. Palade	1974

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