Describe Sir C.V Raman’s life and his contributions towards science.

EARLY LIFE:

• Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was an Indian physicist born in the former Madras Province in India on 7 November 1888.

• At an early age, Raman moved to the city of Visakhapatnam and studied at St. Aloysius Anglo-Indian High School.

• In 1902, Raman joined Presidency College in Madras, where he stood first and bagged the gold medal in Physics.

• In the year 1917, Raman resigned from his government service after he was appointed the first Palit Professor of Physics at the University of Calcutta.

CONTRIBUTIONS:

• He won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the Raman effect".

• Later on the phenomenon of scattering of light was known as Raman scattering.

• He was the first non-white to receive a Nobel Prize for work in Science.