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C. V. Raman

1888 - 1970

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Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman ( RAH-muhn; Tamil: சந்திரசேகர வெங்கட ராமன்; 7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) was an Indian physicist known for his work in the field of light scattering. Using a spectrograph that he developed, he and his student K. S. Krishnan discovered that when light traverses a transparent material, the deflected light changes its wavelength. This phenomenon, a hitherto unknown type of scattering of light, which they called modified scattering was subsequently termed the Raman effect or Raman scattering. In 1930, Raman received the Nobel Prize in Physics for this discovery and was the first Asian and non-White to receive a Nobel Prize in any branch of science. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. C. V. Raman is the 139th most popular physicist (down from 125th in 2019), the 60th most popular biography from India (down from 52nd in 2019) and the most popular Indian Physicist.

Raman was most famous for his discovery of the Raman Effect, which is the scattering of monochromatic light due to molecular vibrations.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, C. V. Raman ranks 139 out of 851. Before him are Hans Bethe, James Franck, Robert Coleman Richardson, Emilio Segrè, Emil Lenz, and George Gamow. After him are Arno Allan Penzias, Pavel Cherenkov, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, Roger Penrose, Louis Néel, and Rudolf Mössbauer.

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Among people born in 1888, C. V. Raman ranks 19. Before him are Nikolai Bukharin, Nestor Makhno, John Logie Baird, Giorgio de Chirico, Abul Kalam Azad, and Carl Schmitt. After him are Jean Monnet, Frits Zernike, Raymond Chandler, Eugene O'Neill, Selman Waksman, and Friedrich Fromm. Among people deceased in 1970, C. V. Raman ranks 21. Before him are Édouard Daladier, Otto Heinrich Warburg, François Mauriac, Paul Celan, Peter II of Yugoslavia, and Mark Rothko. After him are Semyon Timoshenko, Rudolf Carnap, Heinrich Brüning, Alfred Newman, Jochen Rindt, and Napoleon Hill.

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In India

Among people born in India, C. V. Raman ranks 60 out of 1,861. Before him are H. D. Deve Gowda (1933), Kabir (1440), Ajatashatru (-500), Salman Rushdie (1947), Alauddin Khalji (1266), and Ronald Ross (1857). After him are P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921), Salman Khan (1965), Iskander Mirza (1899), Ram Narayan (1927), Mir Osman Ali Khan (1886), and Aurangzeb (1618).

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Among PHYSICISTS In India

Among physicists born in India, C. V. Raman ranks 1. After him are Satyendra Nath Bose (1894), Abdul Qadeer Khan (1936), Anna Mani (1918), Tom Kibble (1932), Homi J. Bhabha (1909), Jayant Narlikar (1938), Vikram Sarabhai (1919), Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893), Udupi Ramachandra Rao (1932), Abhay Ashtekar (1949), and Daulat Singh Kothari (1906).

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