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Dutta and Das: Nobel Laureates in Asia …
Decade # Area Country
Findings
1901-1910 0 NIL NIL
1911-1920 1 Literature India
1921-1930 1 Physics India
1931-1940 0 NIL NIL
1941-1950 1 Physics Japan
1951-1960 2 Physics China
1961-1970 3 Physics, Japan, India
Literature,
Medicine
1971-1980 7 Physics, Peace, Japan, India, Israel,
NorthVietnam, the United
States and China
1981-1990 6 Physics, Peace, Japan, India, Korea,
Medicine, Taiwan &United States
Chemistry
1991-2000 11 Physics,
Literature,
Peace,
Chemistry,
Economics,
2001-2010 23 Physics,
Chemistry,
Literature,
Economics,
Peace,
2011-2019 21 Physics,
Chemistry,
Medicine,
Economics,
Peace,
Literature
Palestine, Burma, Israel,
India, China, South Korea,
Japan, Timor-Leste
India, Japan, China, Israel,
Hongkong, Philippines,
Turkey, Bangladesh, Iran
India, Japan, Iraq,
Pakistan, Turkey, Yemen,
China, Israel
Table 14: Decade wise no. of Nobel prize including Field name
and Country name
From the above data analysis, we found some points like
There is a total of 78 Nobel laureates in Asia from
1901 to 2019.
Rabindranath Tagore was the first Asian who had
won the Nobel prize in Literature in 1913.
Akira Yoshino and Avijit Banerjee are Nobel
prize winners of Chemistry and Economics respectively in
2019.
Japanese laureates have won most of the Nobel
prizes in Asia till 2019. There are a total of 28 Japanese
Nobel laureates in Asia. India and Israel have won a total
of 11 and 11 Nobel prizes respectively.
The number of Nobel laureates in Asia has been
increased during the last twenty years.
There are many Third worlds or developing
countries in Asia. For that, the number of Nobel prize in
Science is not too much, but the number of Nobel prize in
Peace, Literature are remarkable.
Japan, India, China and Israel have won
Nobel prize almost in all fields (Physics, Chemistry,
Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economics).
Japan has won 11 Nobel prizes in Physics, China
won 5, India won 2, Hongkong won 1 and Pakistan won 1
Nobel prize.
Japan has won 8 and Israel has won 6 Nobel
prizes in Chemistry. China, India, Korea (south), Taiwan &
United States and Turkey have won 1 Nobel prize each.
Japan has won 5, India and China has won 1
Nobel prize each in Physiology or Medicine.
Japan has won 3, India and China have won 2 and
Turkey has won 1 Nobel prize in Literature.
Except for Turkey, Taiwan & United States,
Hongkong and other some countries, many Asian countries
have won Nobel prizes in peace.
In Economics, India and Israel both won 2 Nobel
prizes.
Only a few laureates from Asia won Nobel prizes
in the field of Medicine and Economics.
Figure 4: Decade wise no. of Nobel prize
From the above table and chart, it is clear that no. of
achievement of Nobel prize in different fields is increasing
continuously. In 1910- 1910, no Asian had achieved Nobel
Prize. In the middle of that 20 th century, 1951 to 1970 the
curve was rising and at the end of the century, the no. of
achievement is increasing. It is a good sign of the
development of Asian countries.
Conclusions
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There are a total of 48 countries in Asia. Most of them
belong to developing countries and are considered third
world nations. Till now a total of 78 Asians are
honoured with the Nobel prize in different fields. Japan
is the country that has won the highest no. of Nobel
prize in Asia. From the above discussion, we can
conclude that the development of Physics, Chemistry,
Literature is remarkable within Asia. But there is a lack
of development in Physiology or Medicine. People
from various countries of Asia faces different socioeconomic
challenges in their life regularly such as
poverty, political turmoil, ongoing wars, corruption,