Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was born on 7 November 1888 in Tiruchirappalli. An Indian physicist, Raman was born in southern India and began his career as a government finance officer in Calcutta, while conducting research in his spare time at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science. In 1928 he discovered that light scattered by a transparent material changes wavelength in a way that reveals the molecular structure of the substance, an effect now called the Raman effect. For this he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930, the first Asian to win a Nobel in the sciences. He later directed the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and founded the Raman Research Institute. India marks National Science Day on 28 February to commemorate his discovery.
Before and after
- 13 August 1888Birth of John Logie Baird
- 16 August 1888Birth of T. E. Lawrence
- 5 September 1888Birth of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
- 26 September 1888Birth of T. S. Eliot
- 7 November 1888Birth of Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
- 1889Construction of Moulin Rouge
- 1889Founding of Interparliamentary Union
- 1889The Starry Night
- 30 January 1889Mayerling Incident
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