Raman Effect
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was an Indian physicist born in the former Madras Province in India presently the state of Tamil Nadu, who carried out ground-breaking work in the field of light scattering.
His outstanding inventions includes the ‘Raman effect’, where he proved that light can travel a transparent material, while some light deflects changing the wavelength. Raman is regarded the first person to investigate the harmonic nature of sounds as he immensely worked on the acoustics of musical instruments.
His contribution to the area of science was outstanding for which he was the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930. Then in 1954, he was honored with Bharat Ratna too.
