Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) was an Indian physicist born in the former Madras Province in India presently the state of Tamil Nadu, who carried out ground-breaking work in the field of light scattering, which earned him the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics. He discovered that when light traverses a transparent material, some of the deflected light changes wavelength. This phenomenon, subsequently known as Raman scattering, results from the Raman effect. In 1954, India honoured him with its highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna.
Awards:
- He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society early in his career (1924) and knighted in 1929. He resigned from the Fellowship of the Royal Society in 1968 for unrecorded reasons, the only Indian FRS ever to do so.
- In 1930 he won the Nobel Prize in Physics.
- In 1941 he was awarded the Franklin Medal.
- In 1954 he was awarded the Bharat Ratna.
- He was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1957. In 1998, the American Chemical Society and Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science recognized Raman's discovery as an International Historic Chemical Landmark.
Posthumous recognition and contemporary references
- A road in India's capital, New Delhi, is named C. V. Raman marg.
- An area in eastern Bangalore is called CV Raman Nagar.
- The road running north of the national seminar complex in Bangalore is named C. V. Raman Road.
- A building at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore is named the Raman Building.
- A hospital in eastern Bangalore on 80 Ft. Rd. is named the Sir C V Raman Hospital.
- There is also CV Raman Nagar in Trichy, his birthplace.
- In Star Trek: The Next Generation, there is a United Federation of Planets Starfleet ship named after Raman.
- On 7 November 2013, a Google Doodle honoured Raman on the 125th anniversary of his birthday.
- In Nagpur, a science centre is named after Sir C.V. Raman i.e. Raman Science Centre.