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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