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Who was the first Indian to receive a Nobel Prize in Physics?

1. C. V. Raman
2. Amartya Sen
3. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
4. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Correct answer: C. V. Raman

Solution

C. V. Raman was the first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics. He won it in 1930 for his work on the scattering of light, known as the Raman Effect.

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