The Nobel Prize in Physics 1930
Awarded on: 1930-11-13
"for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him"
Affiliations:
- Calcutta University – Calcutta, India
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Born: 1888-11-07 in Tiruchirappalli, India
Gender: male
Field: Indian physicist (1888–1970)
Biography
Sir 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, which they called modified scattering was subsequently termed the Raman effect or Raman scattering. In 1930, Raman received the Nobel Prize in Physics for this discovery and was the first Asian and non-White to receive a Nobel Prize in any branch of science.