The first Indian and Asian to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics was:

Rabindranath Tagore has honour of being the first Indian Nobel Leaurate. He won Nobel prize for literature, for his work ‘Geetanjali’ in 1913.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1930 was awarded to Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman "for his work on the scattering of light and discovery of an effect, which was named after him as “Raman Effect”.