Sir CV Raman

7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970

About Sir C.V.Raman
Chandrashekhara Venkata Raman or C V
Raman, as we popularly know him, was born
on 7th Nov. 1888 in Thiruvanaikkaval.
 He finished school by the age of eleven and

by then he had already read the popular

lectures of Tyndall, Faraday and Helmoltz.
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 He acquired his BA degree from the Presidency
College, Madras, where he carried out original
research in the college laboratory, publishing
the results in the philosophical magazine.
 After joining the financial services of the
Indian Government at the age of eighteen, he
carried out and published extensive research
on acoustics and optics in his free time for a
decade. Also around the time he was married
to 'Loksundari'.
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 In 1917 he was offered the 'PALIT CHAIR' in
physics in Calcutta University by the then Vice
Chancellor Ashutosh Mukherjee.
 In 1921 he delivered a lecture at the oxford

conference on the theory of stringed

instruments.
 In 1924 he became 'FELLOW' of the Royal

society and was eventually knighted by the

British Government. Sir Chandrashekhara
Venkata Raman(C.V.Raman)
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 While in Calcutta, he made enormous
contributions to vibration, sound, musical
instruments, ultrasonics, diffraction,
photoelectricity, colloidal particles, X-ray
diffraction, magnetron, dielectrics, and the
celebrated "RAMAN" effect which fetched him
the Noble Prize in 1930.
 The mood of self-confidence can be gauged

from the fact that he had his tickets to

Sweden booked before the prize was
announced.
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 From 1933 till 1970 (his death) he lived and

worked in Bangalore, first at the IISc and then
his own (Raman Research Institute). All in all,
he published 475 papers and wrote five
monographs on an incredibly wide range of
topics.
 He enthused generations of younger people

with his excitement about nature and science,

and left an incredible mark on the landscape
of India.
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 THE RAMAN EFFECT For more inquisitive

minds, the Raman effect occurs when a ray of
incident light excites a molecule in the
sample, which subsequently scatters the
light. While most of this scattered light is of
the same wavelength as the incident light,
state (i.e. getting the molecule to vibrate).
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 The Raman effect is useful in the study of
molecular energy levels, structure development,
and multi component qualitative analysis. some
is scattered at a different wavelength. This
inelastically scattered light is called 'RAMAN
SCATTER' which, results from molecule
changing its molecular motion.
 Energy difference between incident light & the
Raman scattered light is equal to the energy
involved in changing the molecule vibrational
"Great advances in knowledge came through
questioning the orthodox view" -SIR CV RAMAN
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