Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman Height, Weight, Religion, Net Worth, Age, Biography

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Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (C. V. Raman)

Last Updated: 07 Nov, 2023 | Views: 1193

Age: 82

Profession: Scientist

Other Profession(s): Physicist, Teacher

Famous For: Won Nobel Prize in Physics

Higher Education: Presidency College(autonomous) Lecturer in Mathematics And Physics

Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman Religion, Birthday, Age

Date of Birth

07 Nov, 1888 (82 Years 13 Days)

Birth Country

India

Birth State/Province

Tamil Nadu

Birth District

Chennai

Birth Place

Tiruchirapalli, Madras

Birth Sign

Scorpio

Religion

Hinduism

Nationalities

Indian

Died on

21 Nov, 1970

Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman Early life, Education, Career, Awards, Achievements, Controversy, Unknown Facts

About (Profile/Biography):

Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman is a well-known Indian physicist who specializes in studying light scattering. Although he and his student K. S. Krishnan discovered using a spectrograph, they created that light that is deflected through a transparent material change in wavelength and frequency. Later, the Raman effect or Raman scattering referred to this phenomenon, a previously unidentified kind of light scattering that they named "modified scattering." Upon discovering the principle of electrostatics in 1930, Raman became the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize in science.

Career:

In 1907: Raman passed the entrance exam for the Indian Finance Service, coming in first.

In 1919: Raman was given the titles of Honorary Professor and Honorary Secretary at IACS.

In 1932: The spin of photons was determined through his collaboration with Suri Bhagavantam.

In 1933: He left Calcutta after being appointed Director of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore.

In 1948: He approached crystal dynamics from a new perspective by studying their spectroscopic behavior.

Achievements and Awards:

• In 1912: Raman was still employed by the Indian Finance Service when he earned the Curzon Research Award.

• In 1930: The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to him for the discovery of an effect named after him and his work on scattering of light.

• In 1954: He received the Bharat Ratna.

Unknown Facts:

• He was chosen to serve as the Indian Institute of Science's first director. Prior to that, all of the directors selected for IIS were British. Therefore this represents a significant accomplishment for our nation.

• His research on the scattering of light was initially published when he was just a graduate student, which was a significant accomplishment at that time.