Who was the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize in Medicine? MCQ with Answer and Explanation

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Who was the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize in Medicine?

A. Hargobind Khorana

B. C.V. Raman

C. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

D. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Answer: Option A

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Hargobind Khorana was the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1968 for his work on genetic code.

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Har Gobind Khorana, an Indian-American biochemist, won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1968 for his interpretation of the genetic code.

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