C. V. Raman (1888-1970)
Full name-
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Born-
7 November 1888
Died-
21 November 1970
- He 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 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.
- Awards-
- Matteucci Medal (1928)
- Knight Bachelor (1929)
- Hughes Medal (1930)
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1930)
- Bharat Ratna (1954)
- Lenin Peace Prize (1957)
- Fellow of the Royal Society
- Other information-
- He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society early in his career (1924) and knighted in 1929. He resigned from the Fellowship of the Royal Society in 1968 for unrecorded reasons, the only Indian FRS ever to do so.
- In 1930 he won the Nobel Prize in Physics.
- In 1941 he was awarded the Franklin Medal.
- In 1954 he was awarded the Bharat Ratna
- He was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1957. In 1998, the American Chemical Society and Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science recognized Raman's discovery as an International Historic Chemical Landmark.
- India celebrates National Science Day on 28 February of every year to commemorate the discovery of the Raman effect in 1928.
- In Star Trek: The Next Generation, there is a United Federation of Planets Starfleet ship named after Raman.
- On 7 November 2013, a Google Doodle honoured Raman on the 125th anniversary of his birthday.
