Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman M.A. [Physics]
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman M.A. [Physics]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1930
Name: Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Birth: 7 November 1888, Tiruchirappalli, India
Death: 21 November 1970, Bengaluru, India
Institution: Calcutta University, Kolkata, India
Award: “for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him”
Subject: atomic physics, electromagnetism
Portion of cash: 1/1
B.A., M.A. Physics: Presidency College, Madras.
B.A. 1904: first place, gold medal.
M.A. 1907: highest distinctions.
Research: optics and acoustics.
Raman lost Nobel Prize money to fraudulent financer. Meeting fraudster years later, he said: You deserve Nobel Prize for your cunning in duping Nobel Laureate!
Playful comment: Unfortunately Economics Nobel instituted later in 1969!
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C.V. Raman, a physicist in India, was conducting research on Light Diffraction. One of his students was cheerless. Somebody else conducting research on the same subject in England had a ten-kilowatt X-Ray tube. The boy possessed only a one-kilowatt X-Ray tube. That was the cause of the boy being cheerless.
Raman said to the student, “Use a 10-kilowatt brain!”