Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was a veteran scientist from India,who received Nobel Prize in the year 1930 for his discovery 'Raman Effect'. He was born on 07 November 1888.
After finishing his education,though he joined the Indian Financial Services,his areas of interest included vibrations,ultrasonics,diffraction and so on.
In 1917,he was offered professorship at Calcutta city. In 1924,he was elected Fellow of Royal Society of London.
The Raman Effect deals with the scattering of light by molecules of a medium when they are excited to vibrational energy lends.
" Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you and there is nothing worth in this world that can come without the sweat of our brow. "
His soul left his body on November 21st,1970. He lived the last days of his life at Bangalore,India.
He was one of the greatest scientists India has ever produced.
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