Biography of sir cv raman iti
Biography of sir cv raman iti
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C. V. Raman
Indian physicist (–)
In this Indian name, the name Chandrasekhara is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Venkata Raman, or just Raman.
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (;[1] 7 November 21 November ), known simply as C.
V. Raman,[2] was an Indian physicist known for his work in the field of light scattering.[3] 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, which they called modified scattering was subsequently termed the Raman effect or Raman scattering. In , Raman received the Nobel Prize in Physics for this discovery and was the first Asian and the first non-White to receive a Nobel Prize in any branch of science.[4]
Born to Tamil Brahmin parents, Raman was a precocious ch