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C. V. Raman

चन्द्रशेखर वेङ्कट रामन

Indian physicist (1888–1970)

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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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Born
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Place of birth
Tiruchirappalli wd
Died
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Place of death
Bengaluru wd
Citizenship
British Raj, India wd
Occupation
physicist, university teacher, crystallographer wd
Education
University of Madras, Presidency College, University of Calcutta wd
Spouse
Lokasundari Ammal wd

Awards wd

  • Nobel Prize in Physics (1930)
  • Lenin Peace Prize (1957)
  • Bharat Ratna (1954)
  • Fellow of the Royal Society
  • Hughes Medal (1930)
  • Matteucci Medal (1928)
  • Franklin Medal (1941)
  • honorary doctor of the University of Calcutta
  • Knight Bachelor
  • Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi
  • honorary doctor of the University of Bordeaux (1948)
  • doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1932)

Questions

When was C. V. Raman born?
C. V. Raman was born on 7 November 1888 in Tiruchirappalli.
Where did C. V. Raman study?
C. V. Raman was educated at University of Madras, Presidency College, University of Calcutta.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia (English): C. V. Raman · CC BY-SA 4.0
  2. Wikipedia (Nepali): चन्द्रशेखर वेङ्कट रामन · CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. Wikidata item Q60429 · CC0 1.0
  4. Image: Sir CV Raman.JPG by Nobel Foundation (Public domain)

Last updated · facts checked 8 November 2026

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