Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1930
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Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1930
for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him
Citizenship
British Raj British Raj Dominion of India Dominion of India India India
Languages
English
date of birth
11/7/1888
place of birth
Tiruchirappalli
date of death
11/21/1970
place of death
Bengaluru
Lived
82 years

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member of
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 8/11/1961
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 6/12/1947
  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1937
  • Royal Society of London
  • Indian National Science Academy
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
  • Romanian Academy
employer
  • Banaras Hindu University
  • Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
  • University of Calcutta
educated at
  • University of Calcutta
  • Presidency College
  • University of Madras
notable work
  • A New Type of Secondary Radiation
  • Raman scattering
doctoral student
  • K. R. Ramanathan
  • G. N. Ramachandran
  • S. Pancharatnam
  • Vikram Sarabhai
field of work
  • physics
occupation
  • physicist
  • university teacher
  • crystallographer
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