“I am the master of my failure. If I never fail, how will I ever Learn.

Respected principal sir, vice principal sir, HM Sir teachers and all my dear friends good morning,
today I Tathagat of class 9/A would like to speak a few words about CV Raman on the occasion of
National Science Day.

National Science Day is celebrated every year in India on 28th February to mark the discovery of the
Raman Effect by Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman - He discovered the Raman effect on 28
February 1928 and for this discovery, he was honoured by the Nobel Prize in physics in 1930

CV Raman was born on 7th Nov 1888 at Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu, He entered the presidency
college at Madras in 1902 and in 1904 passed his B- A examination after that in 1907, CV Raman
passed his M.A later that year he joined the Indian finance Department.

From 1917 onwards he worked at Calcutta as a professor in physics for fifteen years. There he
received worldwide recognition for his work in optics and scattering of light.

In 1933 Raman was charged as the director of the Indian Institute of sciences at Bangalore. In 1943
he founded the Raman Research institute in the same place there he published his first scientific
paper on the topic “unsymmetrical diffraction”.

In 1954, the Government of India awarded him the Bharat Ratana, the highest civilian award.

Raman also explained the blue colour of the ocean, which was the result of the Scattering of sunlight
by the molecules of the water.

Sadly, he passed away on 21st Nov 1970 at the age of 82 due to cardiac arrest.

Sir CV Raman is an inspiration for generations of scientists, and will be an inspiration for generations
to come.

Thank you