Down Memory Lane: Indian Nobel Prize Winners
#C V Raman
CV Raman was the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize in Science.
Till now, Raman remains the only Indian to receive a Nobel Prize in Science. He is also the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1930 was awarded to Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman "for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him".
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 the result of the Raman Effect.
Raman established the Indian Academy of Sciences Bangalore, and Raman Research Institute in 1934 and 148 respectively.
