Name: Venkata Raman Chandrasekharan
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Known As: Sir C.V.Raman
Date of Birth: 7th November 1888 at Thiruvanai Koil, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu (The Second of the 8 Children of their parents)
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Date of Death: 21st November 1970 (At the Age of 82 Years) at Bangalore, Karnataka
Father: Prof.Chandrasekhara Iyer , Had been a lecturer in Mathematics and Physics at Madras Presidency College, Madras
Mother: Parvati Ammal /Saptarshi Parvati
Spouse: Lokasundari Ammal
Children: Two Sons-Chandrasekhar and Radhakrishnan
Elder Brother's Son:
Prof. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, the Nobel Prize Winner in Physics in the year 1983 for his discovery of the "Chandrasekhar Limit" was Sir C.V.Raman's elder brother's son.
Studied At:
St Aloysious Anglo-Indian High School, Vishakapattinam
Madras Presidency College- B.A. with Gold Medal in Physics-1904 and M.A. with Distinctions-1907
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Occupation:
Physicist/Scientist- After his studies, C.Venkataraman joined Government Services. In the year 1917 after resigning his Government job, he joined as a Professor in Physics in the University of Calcutta. At the same time he continued his research at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science/ IACS, Calcutta.
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Conferred on Nobel Prize for Physics in the year 1930 for his “Raman Effects”, discovered in his experiments in IACS Calcutta in collaborations with his co-Physicists in the year 1928.
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Sir.C.V.Raman has written and published many books on various topics in Science/Physics.
After retiring from the Indian Institute of Science in the year 1944 Sir.C.V.Raman established the“Raman Research Institute” in Bangalore, Karnataka in the year 1945 and he had been an active director of the Institute till his death in the year 1970.
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Date of Birth: 7th November 1888 at Thiruvanai Koil, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu (The Second of the 8 Children of their parents)
Father: Prof.Chandrasekhara Iyer , Had been a lecturer in Mathematics and Physics at Madras Presidency College, Madras
Mother: Parvati Ammal /Saptarshi Parvati
Spouse: Lokasundari Ammal
Children: Two Sons-Chandrasekhar and Radhakrishnan
Elder Brother's Son:
Prof. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, the Nobel Prize Winner in Physics in the year 1983 for his discovery of the "Chandrasekhar Limit" was Sir C.V.Raman's elder brother's son.
Studied At:
St Aloysious Anglo-Indian High School, Vishakapattinam
Madras Presidency College- B.A. with Gold Medal in Physics-1904 and M.A. with Distinctions-1907
Physicist/Scientist- After his studies, C.Venkataraman joined Government Services. In the year 1917 after resigning his Government job, he joined as a Professor in Physics in the University of Calcutta. At the same time he continued his research at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science/ IACS, Calcutta.
Conferred on Nobel Prize for Physics in the year 1930 for his “Raman Effects”, discovered in his experiments in IACS Calcutta in collaborations with his co-Physicists in the year 1928.
After retiring from the Indian Institute of Science in the year 1944 Sir.C.V.Raman established the“Raman Research Institute” in Bangalore, Karnataka in the year 1945 and he had been an active director of the Institute till his death in the year 1970.
- Knight Bachelor- By the British Government-1929
- Nobel Prize for Physics: 1930
- “Bharat Ratna”- The highest Civilian Award in India-Union Government of India-1954
- Lenin Peace Prize- By the Soviet Union of Russia-1957
- The day of the discovery of the ‘Raman Effect’, the 28th of February is celebrated in India as the “National Science Day”, to honour Sir C.V.Raman.
- “Google” has celebrated the 125th Birthday of Sir.C.V.Raman with its ‘Doodle’on its search page on 7th November 2013.
List of Indians Awarded Nobel Prize