On 7 November 1888, an extraordinary mind was born in Thiruvanaikoil, near Tiruchirappalli in present-day Tamil Nadu. His name was Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, popularly known as C. V. Raman. He would go on to become one of India’s greatest scientists, win the Nobel Prize in Physics and bring international recognition to Indian scientific research. But…
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National Science Day: Honoring C.V. Raman’s Legacy and the True Purpose of Science
Every year, on February 28th, India celebrates National Science Day to mark the discovery of the Raman Effect by Indian physicist Sir C.V. Raman on this day in 1928. This groundbreaking discovery, which revealed the change in the frequency of light when it scatters, earned Raman the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930—making him the…