4. BORN ON NOVEMBER 7,1888 AT
THIRUVAINIKOIL
SCHOOLING AT ST.ALOSHYSIUS ANGLO
INDIAN HIGH SCHOOL
GRADUATION IN PHYSICS FROM PRESIDENCY
COLLEGE IN THE YEAR 1904
POST GRADUATION IN 1907
IN 1928 HE PROPOSED RAMAN EFFECT
GOT NOBEL PRIZE FOR PHYSICS IN THE YEAR
1930.
RETIRED FROM INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE
IN1948
DIED IN THE YEAR 1970
5. HIS EARLIEST RESEARCH AS A
STUDENT WAS BASED ON
ACOUSTICS AND OPTICS.
HE WAS THE FOUNDER OF THE
INDIAN JOURNALS OF PHYSICS
IN 1926.IN 1928 HE PROPOSED THE
RAMAN EFFECT.HE PUBLISHED
475 RESEARCH PAPERS AND
WROTE FIVE REMARKABLE
MONOGRAPHS.
6.
7. IN 1928 WITH VARIOUS
EXPERIMENTS ON SCATTERING
OF LIGHT HE FOUND RAMAN
EFFECT.THIS HELPED HIM IN
INTIATING RAMAN
SPECTROSCOPY AND IN PROVING
QUANTUM THEORY OF LIGHT.
8.
9. ‘’WHEN LIGHT TRAVERSES A
TRANSPARENT MATERIAL,SOME
OF THE LIGHT THAT IS
DEFLECTED
CHANGES IN WAVELENGTH’’
10. HE WAS ABLE TO DETERMINE THE
DIFFRACTION OF LIGHT BY ACOUSTIC
WAVES OF ULTRASONIC AND HYPERSONIC
FREQUENCIES
HE ALSO FOUND OUT THE EFFECTS OF X-RAYS
ON INFRARED VIBRATIONS OF
CRYSTALS EXPODSED TO ORDINARY LIGHT
HE SHED NEW LIGHT ON THEORY OF
CRYSTAL DYNAMICS
11. STUCTURE OF
COLLOIDS
PHYSIOLOGY OF
HUMAN EYE AND
ITS VISION
ELECTRIC AND
MAGNETIC
ANISOTROPY
ACOUSTICS
ULTRASONICS
OPTICS
MAGNETISM
CRYSTAL PHYSICS
RAMAN’S WORK
ON
MUSICALDRUMS OF
INDIA WAS EPOCH
MAKING
12. GOT NOBEL PRIZE FOR PHYSICS IN THE
YEAR 1930.
IN 1941 HE WAS AWARDED THE
FRANKLIN MEDAL.
A BHARATH RATNA WAS AWARDED
TO HIM IN THE YEAR 1954.
GOT LENIN PEACE PRIZE IN 1957
HUGHES MEDAL
MATTEUCEI MEDAL