C. V. Raman
Indian physicist
>
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman FRS was an Indian physicist known for his work in the field of light scattering. Using a spectrograph that he developed, he and his student K. S. Krishnan discovered that when light traverses a transparent... Wikipedia
Born: November 7, 1888, Tiruchirappalli, India
Died: November 21, 1970 (age 82 years), Bengaluru, India
Nephew: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Education: Presidency College Chennai (1907), Presidency College Chennai (1902–1904), University of Madras, and more
Children: Venkatraman Radhakrishnan
Awards: Bharat Ratna, Nobel Prize in Physics, Lenin Peace Prize, and more
Parents: Parvathi Ammal and R. Chandrasekhar Iyer
Show more
Show less