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SIR C.V.

RAMAN
C.V. Raman
First Indian Nobel Laureate
in Physics

7 November 1888-
21 November 1970
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

Born in the city of Thiruchirapalli, Madras on 8th


NOV.1888…
Family…
 Second child of R.Chandrasekhara Iyer &
Parvathi Ammal
 Married Lokasundari Ammal
 Had two children, Chandrasekharan &
Radhakrishnan
Education…

B.A. at Presidency College,Madras.

St.Aloysious Anglo Indian


High School. M.Sc from University of
Madras.

Raman with Friends.


Career…

Research continued in IACS, Calcutta.

First Palit Prof. in University of Indian Academy of


Calcutta. Science.

Raman Research Institute,


Banglore.
Raman Effect…

 Won Nobel Prize for this


discovery
Explaining Raman
Raman’s Spectrograph
Effect to his students
in 1930.
Awards & Honours…

Knight Bachelor-1929
Fellow of Royal Society-1924 Nobel Prize in Physics- 1930

Hughes Medal-1930
Franklin Medal-1941

Lenin Peace Prize-1957

Bharat Ratna-1954
 India celebrates ‘National Science Day’ on 28th
February every year to commemorate the discovery of
Raman effect.

 A stamp was brought out on the occasion


of his first death anniversary.
Raman Tree
 Sir C.V. Raman was also interested in
veena,violin,tabla,tamburu,mridangam…
With Homi J. Bhabha
With Nehru

With Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar


“I am the master of my failure…
If I never fail how will I ever
learn.”

Passed away on 21st November


1970
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JINTA PUNNOOSE
PHYSICAL SCIENCE
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