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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 t…
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science · Indian physicist (1888–1970) · physicist · university teacher · crystallographer · also Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, C. V. Raman, Sir Chandrasekhara Raman, C.V. Raman, Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, CV Raman
Born 7 November 1888 · Died 21 November 1970 · Q60429
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“I have taken this decision after careful consideration of all the circumstances of the case. I would request that my resignation be accepted and my name removed from the list of the Fellows of the Society”
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“Krishnan was the greatest charlatan I have known, and all his life he masqueraded in the cloak of another man”
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“When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment,”
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“[Giffard] examined me and certified that I was going to die of tuberculosis . . . if I were to go to England”
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Published “Development and Validation of a Deep Learning Algorithm for Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy in Retinal Fundus Photographs” in JAMA — cited 6,614 times.
Published “The Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia enables predictive modelling of anticancer drug sensitivity” in Nature — cited 7,265 times.
The American Chemical Society and Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science recognised Raman's discovery as an International Historic Chemical Landmark at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science in
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Was one of the first organic and inorganic chemical manufacturers in India
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Died 1970-11-21.
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For unrecorded reasons, the only Indian FRS ever to do so
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Raman proposed to establish another research institute in Madras
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Awarded Lenin Peace Prize (1957).
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Awarded Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi (1956).
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Awarded Bharat Ratna (1954).
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Was awarded the Bharat Ratna (along with politician and former Governor-General of India C
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Bordeaux (1948).
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And established the Raman Research Institute in Bangalore a year later
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Established the Raman Research Institute, where he worked to his last days
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Through studying the spectroscopic behaviour of crystals, he approached the fundamental problems of crystal dynamics in a new manner
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Raman was appointed the first National Professor by the new government of independent India
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Won Franklin Medal (1941).
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Was awarded the Franklin Medal by the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia
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Was appointed a Foundation Fellow of the National Institute of Sciences of India (FNI, now the Indian National Science Academy
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And started publishing the academy's journal Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences (later split up into Proceedings - Mathematical Sciences, Journal of Chemical Sciences, and Journal of Earth System Science)
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Kamala Sohonie applied to the Indian Institute of Science for a research fellowship, her application was turned down by Raman on the grounds that women were not considered competent enough to pursue research
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To become the first Indian director of the Indian Institute of Science
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The Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA), at the time the largest scientific organisation, planned to establish a national science body, which would be authorised to advise the government on scientific matters
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Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1932).
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Which further confirmed the quantum nature of light
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him.
Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1930).
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Won Hughes Medal (1930).
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Won the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him"
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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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As "among the best three or four discoveries in experimental physics in the last decade"
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That he booked tickets in July, even though the awards were to be announced in November
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Received the Hughes Medal of the Royal Society
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He nominated Raman for the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930, presented him the Hughes Medal as President of the Royal Society in 1930, and recommended him for the position of Director at IISc in 1932.
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Presented him the Hughes Medal as President of the Royal Society in 1930, and recommended him for the position of Director at IISc in 1932
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Were nominated for the Nobel Prize alongside Raman
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Won Matteucci Medal (1928).
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Grigory Landsberg and Leonid Mandelstam at the Moscow State University independently discovered the Raman effect
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Received the Matteucci Medal from the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze in Rome
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That when a beam of coloured light entered a liquid, a fraction of the light scattered by that liquid was of a different color
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Established the Indian Journal of Physics and acted as the first editor
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Mukherjee asked him of his future plans, which he replied, saying, "The Nobel Prize of course"
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Was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
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Showed the possibility of other light rays formed in addition to the incident ray when sunlight was filtered through a violet glass in certain liquids and solids
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That electromagnetic waves can also be described as particles
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Managed to study how sound travels in the Whispring Gallery of the dome of St Paul's Cathedral in London that produces unusual sound effects
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Raman received two honorary positions at IACS — Honorary Professor and Honorary Secretary
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When he joined Rajabazar Science College, a campus created by the University of Calcutta in 1914, that he became a full-fledged professor
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Was appointed the first Palit Professor of Physics by Ashutosh Mukherjee at the Rajabazar Science College under the University of Calcutta
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Received the Woodburn Research Medal, while still working in the Indian Finance Service
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Raman received the Curzon Research Award, while still working in the Indian Finance Service
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According to which, "The much admired dark blue of the deep sea has nothing to do with the color of water, but is simply the blue of the sky seen by reflection"
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Raman was transferred to Rangoon, British Burma (now Myanmar), to take up the position of currency officer
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And the British government appointed its first director, Morris Travers
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In which Raman was the major contributor
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The couple were accused of converting to Christianity
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Raman joined Presidency College in Madras (now Chennai) where his father had been transferred to teach mathematics and physics
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His family moved to Visakhapatnam (then Vizagapatam or Vizag) in Andhra Pradesh as his father was appointed to the faculty of physics at Mrs A
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Born 1888-11-07.
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