Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was an Indian physicist who was awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of what is now known as Raman scattering and the Raman effect. This phenomenon occurs when light interacts with matter and some of the scattered light changes wavelength. Raman conducted his experiments while working as a professor of physics at the University of Calcutta in India and made this important discovery in 1928 that provided further evidence of the quantum nature of light. He was the first Asian and non-White person to receive a Nobel Prize in the sciences.

2.  Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata
Raman, FRS (Tamil:
) (7 November 1888 – 21
November 1970) was an Indian physicist whose
work was influential in the growth of science in
the world. He was the recipient of the Nobel Prize
for Physics in 1930 for the discovery that when
light traverses a transparent material, some of
the light that is deflected changes in wavelength.
This phenomenon is now called Raman
scattering and is the result of the Raman effect.

3.  Venkata Raman was born at Thiruvanaikaval,
near Tiruchirappalli, Madras Presidency to R.
Chandrasekhara Iyer (b. 1866) and Parvati Ammal
(Saptarshi Parvati).[1] He was the second of their
eight children. At an early age, Raman moved to
the city of Vizag,Andhra Pradesh. Studied in
St.Aloysius Anglo-Indian High School. His father
was a lecturer in Mathematics and physics at
Presidency College (Madras) which Raman
entered in 1902 at the age of 13. In 1904 he passed
his B.A. examination in first place and won the
gold medal in physics, and in 1907 he gained his
M.A. degree with the highest distinctions

4.  In 1917, Raman resigned from his
government service and took up the newly
created Palit Professorship in Physics at
the University of Calcutta. At the same time,
he continued doing research at the Indian
Association for the Cultivation of Science,
Calcutta, where he became the Honorary
Secretary. Raman used to refer to this period
as the golden era of his career. Many
students gathered around him at the IACS
and the University of Calcutta.
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5.  On February 28, 1928, through his experiments on the scattering of
light, he discovered the Raman effect. It was instantly clear that this
discovery was an important one. It gave further proof of the quantum
nature of light. Raman spectroscopy came to be based on this
phenomenon, and Ernest Rutherford referred to it in his presidential
address to the Royal Society in 1929. Raman was president of the 16th
session of the Indian Science Congress in 1929. He was conferred
a knighthood, and medals and honorary doctorates by various
universities. Raman was confident of winning the Nobel Prize in
Physics as well, and was disappointed when the Nobel Prize went
to Richardson in 1928 and to de Broglie in 1929. He was so confident of
winning the prize in 1930 that he booked tickets in July, even though
the awards were to be announced in November, and would scan each
day's newspaper for announcement of the prize, tossing it away if it did
not carry the news. He did eventually win the 1930 Nobel Prize in
Physics "for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of
the effect named after him". He was the first Asian and first non-White
to receive any Nobel Prize in the sciences. Before him Rabindranath
Tagore (also Indian) had received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.

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