| Name(s) |
Dr. C.V.
(Chandrasekhara Venkata) RAMAN |
| Date of
Birth |
November 07, 1888
– Trichy, Tamil Nadu, India. |
| Date of
Death |
November 21, 1970
– Bangalore, Karnataka, India. |
|
Identity |
Indian Nobel
Laureate Physicist |
|
Date-wise Events / Works |
- 1924: He was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society early in his career.
- February 28, 1928: His
discovery of the RAMAN EFFECT: He
discovered on this day that when light traverses a
transparent material, some of the deflected light changes in
wavelength; this phenomenon is now called Raman
scattering (the inelastic scattering of a photon
upon interaction with matter) and is the result of the
Raman effect. Consequently, this day is
celebrated as NATIONAL SCIENCE DAY in
India.
- 1929: Knight Bachelor
- 1929: He was president of
the 16th session of the Indian Science Congress.
- 1930: Hughes Medal
- 1930: Nobel Prize
in Physics
- 1944: He retired from the
Indian Institute of Science.
- 1945: He established the
Raman Research Institute in Bangalore, Karnataka. He served
as its director and remained active there until his death.
- 1954: BHARAT RATNA
- 1957: Lenin Peace Prize
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Other Events &
Developments |
- He was the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in
1930 for the discovery that when light traverses a
transparent material, some of the deflected light changes in
wavelength. This phenomenon is now called Raman
scattering and is the result of the Raman
effect.
- His work was influential in the growth of science in
India.
- He was the paternal uncle of Subrahmanyan
Chandrasekhar, who later won the Nobel Prize in Physics
(1983) for his discovery of the Chandrasekhar limit in 1931
and for his subsequent work on the nuclear reactions
necessary for stellar evolution.
- He was the first Asian and first non-White
to receive any Nobel Prize in the sciences.
Before him Rabindranath Tagore (also Indian) had received
the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.
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