Article Detail First Scientist of India to get Nobel Prize in Economics ? Answer: Dr. Amartya Sen Similar Questions : 1. Name of the first person to get Paramvir Chakra Answer: Major Somnath Sharma 2. Name of First Indian Missile ? Answer: Prithvi 3. Name of India's first woman IPS officer ? Answer: Kiran Bedi 4. Name of first Indian to win Nobel Prize ? Answer: Rabindranath Tagore 5. Who was the frist person to climb Mount Everest ? Answer: Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary on 29th May, 1953 6. Name of First Indian who reached south pole ? Answer: Col. I K Bajaj 7. Name of the first Chief of Naval staff of India ? Answer: Vice-Admiral R.D. Katari Read more from - First in India