1. This document provides biographical details and summarizes the key events that led to C.V. Raman's discovery of the Raman effect in 1928. It describes Raman's educational and professional background, his early research, and his collaborations with other scientists.
2. In 1928, Raman and Krishnan were studying the scattering of light in liquids and observed a "new type of secondary radiation" where the scattered light had a different wavelength than the incident light, indicating a change in the molecule's vibration/rotation.
3. On February 28th, 1928, Raman viewed the scattered light through a spectroscope and discovered that it contained not only the incident wavelength but another one separated by a dark space, proving that
Title: SIR C V RAMAN, THE RAMAN-EFFECT AND DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE IN INDIA
Presented; On the occasion of the National Science Day, India-Dated 28-02-2020
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Title: SIR C V RAMAN, THE RAMAN-EFFECT AND DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE IN INDIA
Presented; On the occasion of the National Science Day, India-Dated 28-02-2020
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3. • 2nd in eight children (5 sons and 3 daughters)
• Father teacher in a school, later moved to Visakhapatanam to be a lecturer in
Mathematics and Physics in the MrsAVN College when Raman was 3, with a salary
of Rs 85/- per month
• Matriculated at 11, FA at 13, BA at 15 from the Presidency College in Chennai (Gold
medal in English and Physics) and MA at 18 (exempted from attending all classes of
science)
• First research paper at the age of 16 in The Philosophical Magazine (London) on
diffraction of light from prism, and another on measurement of surface tension
(communicated by author himself, with no acknowledgements!)
• Topped Civil Services exam (Finance Dept)- “I shall ever be grateful to the Civil
Surgeon of Madras”
• In 1907, at 18 ½ married Lokasundari and then joined as Asst Accountant General in
the Finance Dept, Kolkata
4. Amrit Lal Sircar- offered Raman
place and instruments to work at
Cultivation of Science
IACS, Kolkata
Mahendra Lal Sircar “Younger men must come and step into
my place and make this into a great
institution”
Ashutosh Dey-
Raman’s
collaborator and
Asst for ~25 years.
Himself never went
to any University!
Raman’s routine at Kolkata:
5:30 am, go to the Association
9:45 am, return home, bathe, breakfast in haste, leave
for office
6:00 pm, go directly to the Association
10:00 pm, return home
Sundays, all day at the Association
5. Science College, Kolkata
Asutosh Mookerji- offered Palit Professorship to Raman disregarding all
norms. To the horror of some and amazement of all, Raman accepted
Professorship at half of the salary
“In my case strangely enough it was not the love of science, nor the love of Nature, but an
abstract idealization, the belief in the value of Human Spirit and the virtue of Human
Endeavour and Achievement. When I read Edwin Arnold’s classic The Light of Asia, I was
moved by the story of the Buddha’s great renunciation, of his search for truth, and of his
final enlightenment. It showed me that the capacity for renunciation in the pursuit of
exalted aims is the very sense of human greatness.”
6. Early work 1907- 1917
Whether Indian instruments-Veena and Sitar produce
good sound- is it a sentiment or has a physical quality
ascribed?
Violation of Young-Helhmholtz law
They produce more harmonics than other instruments!
7. Preamble to Raman Effect
1921, Sir Ashutosh convinces Raman to undertake tour of Europe as a delegate of
Universities’ congress
Raman meets Rutherford, Bragg and J. J.Thomson
During sight seeing tour of London, gets fascinated by St. Paul’s Cathedral and its
whispering galleries: two papers, one in Nature and the other in Proceedings of the
Royal Society
Awestruck by the grandeur of the Mediterranean sea, its beauty and blueness, the
more he saw, the more did his wonder grow
Performed experiment on the ship by taking a Nicole prism and observing at
Brewster’s angle. Demolished the theory that the blueness of sea is the reflection of
blue of the sky.
Blueness of the sea must be from scattering by the water (Einstein-
Smoluchowski formalism may be applied to molecular diffraction)
8. Rayleigh Scattering
Lord Rayleigh, Nobel Prize, 1904 for discovery of Argon
Particles much smaller than the
wavelength of light
Scattering is elastic
Can occur is transparent solids and
liquids, but most prominent in gases
9. Preamble to Raman Effect
Began three lines of investigation upon return from England:
1. The scattering of light by liquids
2. The scattering of X-rays by liquids
3. The viscosity of liquids
1922- Molecular diffraction of light: What would happen in a black body enclosure if
the exchange of energy took place by molecular scattering? How energy could be
transferred between quantum of light and molecules?
1923- Theory of viscosity
1293- Scattering of Sun light by water (not because of weak fluorescence)
At a very early stage in our investigations, we came across a new and entirely unexpected
phenomenon. As early as 1923, it was noticed that when sunlight filtered through a violet glass
passes through certain liquids and solids e.g., water or ice, the scattered rays emerging from the
track of the incident beam through the substance contained certain rays not present in the
incident beam. The observations were made with colour filters (see Figure 1). A green glass filter
was used which cut off all light if placed between the violet filter and the substance. On
transferring the glass to a place between the substance and the observers eye, the track
continued to be visible though feebly. This is a clear proof of a real transformation of light from a
violet into a green ray. The most careful chemical purification of the substance failed to eliminate
the phenomenon. -C.V.Raman in Presidential Address to the Indian Science Congress 1929.
10. A. H. Compton
Nobel Prize 1927 for discovery of Compton Effect
PET scan showing Compton
scattering of -rays
11. Preamble to Raman Effect
1927- Vacation to Waltair- true Compton scattering cannot be observed at optical
wavelengths
January 1928-Venkateswaran observes that glycerine scatters light in green range
Last week of January 1928- Raman urges K. S. Krishnan to take up experimental work
and follow up Venkateswaran’s observations (“it was not healthy for a scientific man to
get out of touch with actual experimentation for any length of time”)
7th February 1928- K. S. Krishnan observes with a 7 inch lens that all his liquids exhibit
the famous “weak fluorescence” of Ramanathan and that the polarisation of the
“fluorescent” light is greater the smaller the anisotropy of the molecule. Raman
confirms that these observations are related to Kramers- Heisenberg process that
they had been pursuing.
12. The Raman Effect
16th February 1928- Post a note to Nature “the modified
radiation could arise from the fluctuations of the molecules
from the normal state”
27th February 1928- Raman decides to view the “fluorescence
track” through a direct vision spectroscope, but by the time
Ashu Babu sets it up, Sun has set
28th February 1928- Spectroscope shows that the track
contains not only the incident colour but at least another
separated by a dark space.
29th February- Discovery is announced to the Associated
Press
8th March, Note sent to Nature by Raman and Krishnan is
rejected by a referee, but published by the Editor!
Cable to Nature from R W Wood: “Prof. Raman’s brilliant and surprising discovery;I have
verified his discovery in every particular. Raman’s discovery thus makes it possible to
investigate remote infrared regions hitherto little explored. It appears to me that this very
beautiful discovery which resulted from Raman’s long and patient study of the
phenomenon of light scattering is one of the most convincing proofs of the quantum theory
of light”
13. The initial paragraph of the historic paper of Raman and Krishnan announcing the discovery of the Raman
effect, which appeared in Nature (C.V. Raman and K.S. Krishnan, Nature, 121(3048), 501, March 31,1928)
A NewType of Secondary Radiation
If we assume that the X-ray scattering of the unmodified type observed by Prof.Compton corresponds to the
normal or average state of the atoms and molecules, while the modified scattering of altered wavelength
corresponds to their fluctuations from that state, it would follow that we should expect also in the case of
ordinary light two types of scattering, one determined by the normal optical properties of the atoms or
molecules, and another representing the effect of their fluctuations from their normal state. It accordingly
becomes necessary to test whether this is actually the case. The experiments we have made have confirmed
this anticipation, and showed that in every case in which light is scattered by the molecules in dust-free liquids
or gases, the diffuse radiation of the ordinary kind, having the same wavelength as the incident beam, is
accompanied by a modified scattered radiation of degraded frequency.
The new type of light scattering discovered by us naturally requires very powerful illumination for its
observation. In our experiments, a beam of sunlight was converged successively by a telescope objective of 18
cm. aperture and 230 cm. focal length, and by a second lens was placed the scattering material, which is either a
liquid (carefully purified by repeated distillation in vacuo) or its dust free vapour. To detect the presence of a
modified scattered radiation, the method of complementary light filters was used. A blue-violet filter, when
coupled with a yellow-green filter and placed in the incident light, completely extinguished the track of the light
through the liquid or vapour. The reappearance of the track when the yellow filter is transferred to a place
between it and the observers eye is proof of the existence of a modified scattered radiation. Spectroscopic
confirmation is also available.
Some sixty different common liquids have been examined in this way, and everyone of them showed the effect
in greater or lesser degree. That the effect is a true scattering, and secondly by its polarization, which is in many
cases quite strong and comparable with the polarisation of the ordinary scattering. The investigation is naturally
much more difficult in the case of gases and vapour, owing to the excessive feebleness of the effect.
Nevertheless when the vapours is of sufficient density, for example with ether or amylene, the modified
scattering is readily demonstrable.
14. Nobel Prize, 1930 in Physics for “on the diffusion of light and for the discovery of the effect
named after him”
Thanks to the vastly more powerful illumination made available by the 7-inch refractor, the
spectroscopic examination of the effect, which had been abandoned in 1925 as indecisive, now
came within the reach of direct visual study. With a Zeiss cobalt glass filter placed in the path of
the incident beam and one or other of a series of organic liquid as the scattering substance, a band
in the blue-green region was observed by me in the spectrum of the scattered light, separated by a
dark interval from the indigo-violet region transmitted by the filter. Both of these regions in the
spectrum became sharper when the region of transmission was narrowed by the insertion of an
additional filter in the incident beam. This suggested the employment, instead of sunlight, of the
highly monochromatic radiations given by a mercury arc in combination with a condenser of large
aperture and a cobalt glass filter. With these arrangements the spectrum of the scattered light
from a variety of liquids and solids was visually examined, and the starting observation was made
that the spectrum generally included a number of sharp lines or bands on a diffuse background
which were not present in the light of the mercury arc.
15.
16. “When the Nobel award was announced I saw it as a personal triumph, an
achievement for me and my collaborators -- a recognition for a very remarkable
discovery, for reaching the goal I had pursued for 7 years. But when I sat in that
crowded hall and I saw the sea of western faces surrounding me, and I, the only
Indian, in my turban and closed coat, it dawned on me that I was really representing
my people and my country. I felt truly humble when I received the Prize from King
Gustav; it was a moment of great emotion but I could restrain myself. Then I turned
round and saw the British Union Jack under which I had been sitting and it was then
that I realised that my poor country, India, did not even have a flag of her own - and
it was this that triggered off my complete breakdown.”
Toast during Nobel function, 1930:
“Sir you have seen the Raman Effect on alcohols, please do not try to see
the alcohol effect on Raman”