The Bharat Ratna award was first awarded to a scientist in the year _____.
- 1954
- 1961
- 1972
- 1984
Answer: 1954
C.V. Raman became the first scientist to receive the Bharat Ratna in 1954, the same year the award was instituted, recognizing his Nobel Prize-winning work on light scattering and the Raman Effect.