Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

Key facts

Born

7 November 1888, Tiruchirappalli

Died

21 November 1970, Bengaluru

State of birth

Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu

Sector

Science & space

Profession

Indian physicist (1888–1970)

Gender

Male

Biography

Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was an Indian physicist known for his work in the field of light scattering. Using a spectrograph that he developed, he and his student K. S. Krishnan discovered that when light traverses a transparent material, the deflected light changes its wavelength. This phenomenon, a hitherto unknown type of scattering of light they called modified scattering, was subsequently termed the Raman effect or Raman scattering. In 1930, Raman received the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him" and became the first Asian and non-White person to receive a Nobel Prize in Physics.

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Timeline

1. 1888Born in Tiruchirappalli
2. 1928Awarded the Matteucci Medal
3. 1930Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics
4. 1930Awarded the Hughes Medal
5. 1932Awarded the doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris
6. 1941Awarded the Franklin Medal
7. 1948Awarded the honorary doctor of the University of Bordeaux
8. 1954Awarded the Bharat Ratna
9. 1956Awarded the Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi
10. 1957Awarded the Lenin Peace Prize
11. 1970Dies in Bengaluru