Q. Who among the following has/have been awarded with both Noble prize and Bharat Ratna?
Rabindranath Tagore
C V Raman
Amartya Sen
Mother Teresa
Choose the correct answer using the codes given below: Answer:
Only 2, 3 & 4
Notes:
In 1913 Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
V Raman became the first Indian scientist to be honoured with the prestigious Nobel Award in Physics in the year 1930 "for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him." Raman was also one of the first recipients of Bharat Ratna in 1954 along with Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan and C Rajagopalachari.
Amartya Sen was awarded Bharat Ratna in the year 1999. In 1998, Amartya Sen received the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for his contributions to welfare economics. Generally regarded as the Nobel award of Economics.
Mother Teresa was awarded India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna, on January 25, 1980, for her humanitarian work. The 'Blessed Teresa of Calcutta' received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her work undertaken in the struggle to overcome poverty and distress in the world.