awards hard Fill in the Blank

The Bharat Ratna award was first awarded to a scientist in the year _____.

  1. 1954
  2. 1961
  3. 1972
  4. 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.

Topic Bharat Ratna
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