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6 quotes by C. V. Raman

Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, FRS (Tamil: சந த ரச கர வ ங கடர மன ; 7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) was an Indian physicist, born in the former Madras Province, whose ground breaking work in the field of light scattering earned him the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics. He discovered that, when light traverses a transparent material, some of the deflected light changes in wavelength. This phenomenon is now called Raman scattering and is...
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In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of... →

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A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It... →

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The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.

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The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh... →

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To an observer situated on the moon or on one of the planets, the most noticeable feature on the surface of our globe would no doubt be the large... →

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When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water, we begin to realise that the molecular... →

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