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    Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was born in 1888 in Southern India to a father who taught mathematics and physics. He excelled academically, obtaining highest honors in his degrees. Though he joined the Indian civil service, he found time for experimental research. In 1917, he became a physics professor and later founded research institutes. His most notable work was the discovery of the Raman effect in 1928, for which he received the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics. He made many other contributions in areas like crystal dynamics, acoustics, and optics over his long career.

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    Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was born in 1888 in Southern India to a father who taught mathematics and physics. He excelled academically, obtaining highest honors in his degrees. Though he joined the Indian civil service, he found time for experimental research. In 1917, he became a physics professor and later founded research institutes. His most notable work was the discovery of the Raman effect in 1928, for which he received the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics. He made many other contributions in areas like crystal dynamics, acoustics, and optics over his long career.

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    Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was born in 1888 in Southern India to a father who taught mathematics and physics. He excelled academically, obtaining highest honors in his degrees. Though he joined the Indian civil service, he found time for experimental research. In 1917, he became a physics professor and later founded research institutes. His most notable work was the discovery of the Raman effect in 1928, for which he received the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics. He made many other contributions in areas like crystal dynamics, acoustics, and optics over his long career.

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    Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman - -

    Biographical

    Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was born at Tiruchirappalli in Southern India on


    November 7th, 1888. His father was a lecturer in mathematics and physics so that from the first he was immersed in an
    academic atmosphere. He entered Presidency College, Madras, in 1902, and in 1904 passed his B.A. examination, winning
    the first place and the gold medal in physics; in 1907 he gained his M.A. degree, obtaining the highest distinctions.

    Since at that time a scientific career did not appear to present the best possibilities, Raman joined the Indian Finance
    Department in 1907; though the duties of his office took most of his time, Raman found opportunities for carrying on
    experimental research in the laboratory of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science at Calcutta (of which he
    became Honorary Secretary in 1919).

    In 1917 he was offered the newly endowed Palit Chair of Physics at Calcutta University, and decided to accept it. After 15
    years at Calcutta he became Professor at the Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore (1933-1948), and since 1948 he is
    Director of the Raman Institute of Research at Bangalore, established and endowed by himself. He also founded the Indian
    Journal of Physics in 1926, of which he is the Editor. Raman sponsored the establishment of the Indian Academy of
    Sciences and has served as President since its inception. He also initiated the Proceedings of that academy, in which much
    of his work has been published, and is President of the Current Science Association, Bangalore, which publishes Current
    Science (India).

    Some of Raman's early memoirs appeared as Bulletins of the Indian Associationfor the Cultivation of Science (Bull. 6 and
    11, dealing with the "Maintenance of Vibrations"; Bull. 15, 1918, dealing with the theory of the musical instruments of the
    violin family). He contributed an article on the theory of musical instruments to the 8th Volume of the Handbuch der
    Physik, 1928. In 1922 he published his work on the "Molecular Diffraction of Light", the first of a series of investigations
    with his collaborators which ultimately led to his discovery, on the 28th of February, 1928, of the radiation effect which
    bears his name ("A new radiation", Indian J. Phys., 2 (1928) 387), and which gained him the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics.

    Other investigations carried out by Raman were: his experimental and theoretical studies on the diffraction of light by
    acoustic waves of ultrasonic and hypersonic frequencies (published 1934-1942), and those on the effects produced by X-
    rays on infrared vibrations in crystals exposed to ordinary light. In 1948 Raman, through studying the spectroscopic
    behaviour of crystals, approached in a new manner fundamental problems of crystal dynamics. His laboratory has been
    dealing with the structure and properties of diamond, the structure and optical behaviour of numerous iridescent
    substances (labradorite, pearly felspar, agate, opal, and pearls).

    Among his other interests have been the optics of colloids, electrical and magnetic anisotropy, and the physiology of
    human vision.
    Raman has been honoured with a large number of honorary doctorates and memberships of scientific societies. He was
    elected a Fellow of the Royal Society early in his career (1924), and was knighted in 1929.

    From Nobel Lectures, Physics 1922-1941, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1965

    This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and first published in the
    book series Les Prix Nobel. It was later edited and republished in Nobel Lectures. To cite this document,
    always state the source as shown above.

    Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman - died on November 21, 1970.

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