Arrange these Indian Nobel laureates in the order in which they won, earliest first: 1. Amartya Sen 2. C.V. Raman 3. Rabindranath Tagore 4. Har Gobind Khorana

3-2-4-1. Tagore won Literature in 1913. Raman won Physics in 1930. Khorana won Medicine in 1968. Sen won Economics in 1998.

Consider the following statements about the Nobel Prizes: 1. The prize in Economic Sciences was set up by Sweden’s central bank in 1968. 2. All six prizes are presented in Stockholm. 3. Since 1974, a prize cannot be given to a person who has already died, unless death came after the announcement. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

1 and 3 only. Statements 1 and 3 are correct. The Riksbank set up the economics prize in 1968, and the 1974 rule bars posthumous awards. Statement 2 is wrong because the Peace Prize is presented in Oslo.

Which one of the following is the odd one out?

Mahatma Gandhi. Khorana, Ramakrishnan and Chandrasekhar all won Nobel Prizes. Gandhi was nominated five times for the Peace Prize but never won it.

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was given for optogenetics. The light-sensitive protein channelrhodopsin used in this method was first found in which organism?

A single-celled alga. Channelrhodopsin came from Chlamydomonas, a single-celled alga that swims towards light. Deisseroth, Hegemann and Nagel shared the 2026 prize.

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Match List I (Nobel Prize) with List II (body that selects the winner): A. Physics B. Literature C. Physiology or Medicine D. Peace 1. Swedish Academy 2. Norwegian Nobel Committee 3. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 4. Karolinska Institute

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Match List I (Nobel Prize) with List II (body that selects the winner): A. Physics B. Literature C. Physiology or Medicine D. Peace 1. Swedish Academy 2. Norwegian Nobel Committee 3. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 4. Karolinska Institute

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