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On the basis of data collections, the data are interpreted,
and concluded.
Scope of the Study
This study is restricted the study of the following areas-
Name of the field covered:
Nobel prize is honoured too many eminent personalities
of different fields like Physics, Chemistry, Physiology,
Literature, Peace and Economics.
Period Covered: From January 1901 to December 2019
Place Covered:
Asian Nobel Laureates ( Born in Asia, Citizenship in
Asian Countries, Of descent any Asian Country)
Significance of the Study
1. The study will help to know Asian Nobel Laureates
(1901 to 2019) concisely in the same place.
2. The study would be a great source of inspiration to
present and future educators.
3. It investigates Scientific contributions by Asiatic
Scientist
4. This study can appreciate the maestros from Asia in
various spheres of Arts.
Nobel Prize in Asia
Asia is the largest continent in the world. There is a
total of 49 countries in Asia. There are 78 Nobel
laureates in Asia from 1901 to 2019. The first Nobel
laureate in Asia was Rabindranath Tagore who was
Sl.
No
Year
Name of Nobel
Laureates
awarded in 1913 for his poetic work " Gitanjali" from
British India. There are 8 Nobel prizes in Literature, 7
Nobel prizes in Physiology or Medicine, 20 Nobel
Prizes in Physics and 19 Nobel prizes in Chemistry
from Asia Were Awarded. Besides, 20 and 4 Nobel
prizes were awarded for Peace and Economics
respectively in Asia. The Nobel Prize is an annual,
international prize first awarded in 1901 for
achievements in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or
Medicine, Literature, and Peace. An associated prize in
Economics has been awarded since 1969 (Nobel Prize,
2007). Nobel Prizes have been awarded to over 800
individuals . Asians have been the recipients of all six
award categories: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or
Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economics. The first
Asian recipient, Rabindranath Tagore, was awarded the
Literature Prize in 1913. The most Nobel Prizes
awarded to Asians in a single year was in 2014 when
five Asians became laureates. The most recent Asian
laureates, Japanese scientist Akira Yoshino and Indian
economist Abhijit Banerjee were awarded their prizes
in 2019.
To date (2019), there have been fifty-seven Asian
winners of the Nobel Prize, including twenty- eight
Japanese, twelve Israel, nine Indian (not including non-
Indian Laureates born in India) and eight Chinese (not
including non-Chinese Laureates born in China). The
following are not including Russian (All Nobel
Laureates, 2019).
Data Collection
We have collected and listed data into 6 tables for Asian
Nobel laureates in different fields.
Table 1 shows the chronological list of Nobel Laureates
and till 2019 eight Asian laureates were awarded the Nobel
prize in Literature.
Name of the
Notable Works
Country
1 1913 Rabindranath Tagore British India English Gitanjali (Song Offerings)
2 1968 Yasunari Kawabata Japan Snow Country
3 1994 Kenzaburō Ōe Japan The Silent Cry
4 2000 Gao Xingjian Born in China Chinese Xiandai xiaoshuo jiqiao chutan
5 2001 V. S. Naipaul Indian origin The Mystic Masseur
6 2006 Orhan Pamuk Turkey Turkish Cevdet Bey Ve Oğulları
7 2012 Mo Yan China Chinese Touming de hong Loubo
8 2017 Kazuo Ishiguro Born in Japan Klara and the Sun
Table 1: List of Asian Nobel Laureates in Literature
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Year
Name of Nobel
Country
No
Laureates
1 1968 Har Gobind Khorana India First to demonstrate the role of nucleotides in protein
synthesis
2 1987 Susumu Tonegawa Japan Antibody diversity E-box V(D)J
recombination
3 2012 Shinya Yamanaka Japan Induced pluripotent stem cell
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4 2015 Satoshi Ōmura Japan Avermectin and Ivermectin Discoveries more than 480 new
compounds
5 2015 Tu Youyou China Discovering artemisinin and dihydroartemisi nin
6 2016 Yoshinori Ohsumi Japan Autophagy
7 2018 Tasuku Honjo Japan Class switch recombination IL-4, IL-5, AID
Cancer immunotherapy PD-1
Table 2: List of Asian Nobel Laureates in Medicine or Physiology