Sir Chandrashekhara Venkata Raman also called C. V. Raman was the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930. He was born on November 7, 1888 in Trichy. Today, Indians are remembering the great scientist on his birth anniversary.
The man discovered that when light traverses a transparent material, some of the deflected light changes wavelength and amplitude, which subsequently came to be known as Raman scattering and the process, the Raman Effect. February 28, the day of the discovery, has since then been celebrated as National Science Day in India.
The Raman effect is the change in the wavelength of light as it gets deflected by a molecule while passing through a chemical compound. It is the Raman effect of light that causes the sky's appearance to be blue.
The effect brought India its first Nobel Prize in Physics and second Nobel Prize as a whole was based on the phenomenon of the scattering of light.
On the legend's birth anniversary, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu paid tributes and saluted him for his contribution toward science.
Similarly, many other politicians remembered CV Raman's legacy.
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(By agencies)
