3. Chandrashekhara Venkata Raman
Born on November 7, 1888 Tiruchirappalli, Tamil
Nadu
Father : Chandrashekharan Ramanadhan Iyer
Mother : Parvathy Ammal
Wife : Lokasundari Ammal
Children: Venkatraman Radhakrishnan,
Chandrashekharan Raman
Died on : November 21,1970
4. St. Aloysius Anglo-Indian High School
In 1902, Presidency College in Madras
1904 he passed his Bachelor of
Sciences examination of University of Madras.
In 1907 he gained his Master of Sciences degree
from University of Madras.
5. Palit Professor of Physics – University of Calcutta
1929 – president of Indian science congress
1933-48 – 1st director of Indian institute of science,
Bangalore
1943 – Started Travancore chemical & manufacturing
Co.Ltd
1947 – 1st national professor by the new Govt. of
independent India.
1949 – Founded Raman research institute, Bangalore
6. Raman effect
1928 February 28
A change of wavelength exhibited by
some of the radiations scattered in a medium.
Quantum photon spin
1932
Light and other forms of EMR pass their
angular momentum on to atoms that absorb them.
7. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society early in his career (1924)
and knighted in 1929. Raman was the only Indian F.R.S., who resigned
from the Fellowship of the Royal Society
8. .
He was awarded the Lenin Peace
Prize in 1957.
In 1954 he was awarded the
Bharat Ratna
9. In 1930 he won the Nobel
Prize in Physics
In 1941 he was awarded
the Franklin Medal
10. India celebrates National Science
Day on 28 February of every year to
commemorate the discovery of the
Raman effect in 1928.
