C. V. Raman
Scientist
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, FRS (Tamil: சந்திரசேகர வெங்கடராமன்; 7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) was an Indian physicist, born in the former Madras Province, whose ground breaking work in the field of light scattering earned him the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics. He discovered that, when light traverses a transparent material, some of the deflected light changes in wavelength. This phenomenon is now called Raman scattering and is the result of the Raman effect. In 1954, he was honoured with the highest civilian award in India, the Bharat Ratna.
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| Birth date | November 07, 1888 |
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| Birth place | India , Tiruchirappalli , Presidencies and provinces of British India , Madras Presidency , Thiruvanaikaval |
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| Date of death | November 21, 1970 |
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| Place of death | India , Bangalore , Mysore State |
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