The claim
At the age of 102, Indian-American statistician C. Radhakrishna Rao was awarded the Nobel Prize in Statistics in 2025.
Original review summary
The review says Rao received the International Prize in Statistics in 2023, at age 102, not a Nobel Prize in 2025. It notes that statistics is not a Nobel Prize category and that Rao died on 22 August 2023.[S1]
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Sources and attribution
- [S1] FACTLY original review
Original review · Retrieved October 16, 2026