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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.","summary_more":["Born in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Raman was a precocious child, completing his secondary and higher secondary education from St Aloysius' Anglo-Indian High School at the ages of 11 and 13, respectively. He topped the bachelor's degree examination of the University of Madras with honours in physics from Presidency College at age 16. His first research paper, on diffraction of light, was published in 1906, while he was a graduate student. The next year he obtained a master's degree. He joined the Indian Finance Service in Calcutta as Assistant Accountant General at age 19. There he became acquainted with the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), the first research institute in India, which allowed him to carry out independent research and where he made his major contributions in acoustics and optics.","In 1917, he was appointed the first Palit Professor of Physics by Ashutosh Mukherjee at the Rajabazar Science College under the University of Calcutta. On his first trip to Europe, seeing the Mediterranean Sea motivated him to identify the prevailing explanation for the blue colour of the sea at the…"],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"7 November 1888","date":"1888-11-07"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60429#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Tiruchirappalli","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q207754"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60429#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"21 November 1970","date":"1970-11-21"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60429#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Bengaluru","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1355"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60429#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"British Raj","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q129286","end":"1947-08-14"},{"text":"India","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q668","start":"1950-01-26"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60429#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"physicist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q169470"},{"text":"university teacher","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1622272"},{"text":"crystallographer","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15142825"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60429#P106"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"University of Madras","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1364464"},{"text":"Presidency College","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3276757"},{"text":"University of Calcutta","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1145306"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60429#P69"}},{"key":"spouse","label":"Spouse","values":[{"text":"Lokasundari Ammal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108750488"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60429#P26"}},{"key":"awards","label":"Awards","values":[{"text":"Nobel Prize in Physics","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q38104","date":"1930"},{"text":"Lenin Peace Prize","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q308907","date":"1957"},{"text":"Bharat Ratna","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q322132","date":"1954"},{"text":"Fellow of the Royal Society","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15631401"},{"text":"Hughes Medal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q844872","date":"1930"},{"text":"Matteucci Medal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1419938","date":"1928"},{"text":"Franklin Medal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3141777","date":"1941"},{"text":"honorary doctor of the University of Calcutta","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96233293"},{"text":"Knight Bachelor","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q833163"},{"text":"Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125121451","start":"1956"},{"text":"honorary doctor of the University of Bordeaux","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93578093","date":"1948"},{"text":"doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q126418747","date":"1932"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60429#P166"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._V._Raman","https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9A%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%B0_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%99%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%9F_%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A8","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60429"],"faq":[{"q":"When was C. 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