Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, FRS (7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) was an Indian
physicist whose work was influential in the growth of science in India. He was
the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930 for the discovery that when light traverses a
transparent material, some of the deflected light changes in wavelength.
Education:Presidency College, Chennai (1907), Presidency College,Chennai (1902 1904), University of Madras
Awards:Nobel Prize in Physics, Bharat Ratna, Lenin Peace
Prize, Franklin Medal, Hughes Medal
Parents:Parvathi Ammal, R. Chandrasekhar Iyer
Spouse:Lokasundari Ammal (m. 1907)
