C. V. Raman
C. V. Raman
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Ramanwas an Indian physicist born in the former Madras Province in India, who carried out ground-breaking work in the field of light scattering, which earned him the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics. He discovered that when light traverses a transparent material, some of the deflected light changes in wavelength. This phenomenon, subsequently known as Raman scattering, results from the Raman effect. In 1954 India honoured him with its highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionPhysicist
Date of Birth7 November 1888
CountryIndia
In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.