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C. V. Raman wins the Nobel Prize in Physics

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C. V. Raman wins the Nobel Prize in Physics
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C. V. Raman, a physicist born in Tiruchirappalli, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for research on light scattering.

Born in Tiruchirappalli in 1888, C. V. Raman was educated at Presidency College, Madras. In Calcutta, together with his student K. S. Krishnan, he found the effect that now carries his name, recording the decisive spectra on 28 February 1928. The Nobel Prize in Physics came to him in 1930 for his studies of light scattering and for discovering the Raman effect. No Asian had won the physics prize before him. India marks the day of the discovery as National Science Day.

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