National Science Day is celebrated annually in India on February 28th to commemorate Indian physicist Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman's discovery of the Raman effect in 1928. For this achievement, Raman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930, bringing great success to the field of science in India. The Raman effect describes the change in wavelength of a small fraction of light passing through a transparent sample, with most light unchanged but a small part shifted to different wavelengths.