The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed for different categories by Swedish and Norwegian institutions in recognition of academic, cultural, and/or scientific advances.

Awarding Nobel prize involve several process like :
Nominations : The Nobel Committee sent the nomination forms to about 3,000 individuals, usually in September the year before the prizes are awarded.
Selection: The Nobel Committee then prepares a report reflecting the advice of experts in the relevant fields. This, along with the list of preliminary candidates, is submitted to the prize-awarding institutions. The institutions meet to choose the laureate or laureates in each field by a majority vote.

Nobel prize awarded to Indian people:
Total of 835 individuals (791 men and 44 women) and 21 organizations were awarded the Nobel Prize, some more than once. 12 are Indians among them (5 Indian citizens and 7 of Indian origin or residency). Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian citizen to be awarded Nobel prize.
Indian citizens and Overseas citizens of Indian origin awarded the Nobel Prizes :
Year
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Laureate
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Country
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Subject
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1913
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Rabindranath Tagore
|
Literature
| |
1930
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C. V. Raman
|
Physics
| |
1968
|
Har Gobind Khorana
|
USA
|
Physiology or Medicine
|
1979
|
Mother Teresa
|
Peace
| |
1983
|
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
|
USA
|
Physics
|
1998
|
Amartya Sen
|
Economic studies
| |
2009
|
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
|
USA
|
Chemistry
|
2014
|
Kailash Satyarthi
|
Peace
|
Nobel prize 2016 :
Laureate
|
Subject
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Yoshinori Ohsumi
|
Physiology or Medicine
|
Michael Kosterlitz
|
Physics
|
Fraser Stoddart
|
Chemistry
|
Jean-Pierre Sauvage
|
Chemistry
|
Duncan Haldane
|
Physics
|
David J. Thouless
|
Physics
|
Ben Feringa
|
Chemistry
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Nobel prize all mean to promote harmony and good work in the world. Good work need to be rewarded as it promotes the enthusiasm in the human being to work more harder for the progress of humanity .