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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Arthur Compton was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for the Compton Effect. The Effect describes X-Ray scattering. Upon reading this news, Raman was very excited. He felt that if it worked in the field of X-Ray, it ought to work in his field of Light, and that to the Compton Effect there must be an optical analogue.
Raman called his graduate student Krishnan and designed a research project. They conducted research. The discovery was named Raman Effect.
As per legend, Raman mailed the research article for publication. Promptly he booked two seats on a ship from Kolkata, India, to reach Stockholm, Sweden the following December. He was very confident of being awarded the Nobel Prize. Raman was extraordinarily self-confident.
Source: István Hargittai