Today Google celebrates the 125th birth anniversary of C.V.Raman. He was an Indian physicist whose work was influential in the growth of science in India. 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 called Raman scattering.
C.V.Raman was born on November 7, 1888 in Thiruvanaikaval, Trichinopoly, Madras Presidency, India. His father was a lecturer in mathematics and physics at Presidency College in Madras. In 1904 he passed his B.A. examination in first place and won the gold madel in physics. In 1917, Raman was appointed the first Palit Professor of physics at University of Calcutta and he continued doing research at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science.
On 28 February 1928, Raman led experiments at the IACS with collaborators, including K. S. Krishnan, on the scattering of light, when he discovered the Raman effect. A detailed account of this period is reported in the biography by G. Venkatraman.[7] It was instantly clear that this discovery was of huge value. It gave further proof of the quantum nature of light. Raman had a complicated professional relationship with K. S. Krishan, who surprisingly did not share the award, but is mentioned prominently even in the Nobel lecture.
Raman retired from the Indian Institute of Science in 1944 and established the Raman Research Institute in Bangalore, Karnataka a year later. He served as its director and remained active there until his death in 1970, in Bangalore, at the age of 82.
C.V.Raman died 21 November, 1970 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
C.V.Raman was born on November 7, 1888 in Thiruvanaikaval, Trichinopoly, Madras Presidency, India. His father was a lecturer in mathematics and physics at Presidency College in Madras. In 1904 he passed his B.A. examination in first place and won the gold madel in physics. In 1917, Raman was appointed the first Palit Professor of physics at University of Calcutta and he continued doing research at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science.
On 28 February 1928, Raman led experiments at the IACS with collaborators, including K. S. Krishnan, on the scattering of light, when he discovered the Raman effect. A detailed account of this period is reported in the biography by G. Venkatraman.[7] It was instantly clear that this discovery was of huge value. It gave further proof of the quantum nature of light. Raman had a complicated professional relationship with K. S. Krishan, who surprisingly did not share the award, but is mentioned prominently even in the Nobel lecture.
Raman retired from the Indian Institute of Science in 1944 and established the Raman Research Institute in Bangalore, Karnataka a year later. He served as its director and remained active there until his death in 1970, in Bangalore, at the age of 82.
C.V.Raman died 21 November, 1970 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
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