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Chandrasekhara Venkata (C. V.) Raman FNA, FASc, FRS, was a distinguished physicist whose achievements in the field of light scattering earned him the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics. He discovered that when light traverses a transparent material, the wavelengths of some of the deflected light change.
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (/ ˈ r ɑː m ə n /; [1] 7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970), known simply as C. V. Raman, [2] was an Indian physicist known for his work in the field of light scattering. [3]
Sir J.C. Ghosh also was the second person to be associated with Sc. College (after Sir CV Raman) who became the director of IISc (Indian Institute of Science). Prof. A.P.C Ray founded the Bengal Chemicals and Pharmaceutical Work and he along with prof. Hemendra Kumar Sen established the department of Applied Chemistry in Sc. College in 1920. Prof.
This is a list of honorary degree recipients from the University of Calcutta. Honorary degree recipients This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Color key Light green indicates "(Special)"; pink indicates "(Posthumous)" Year Name Degree 1876 H.R.H. Albert Edward, Prince of Wales ...
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (C. V. Raman), physicist (1888–1970 CE) Srinivasa Ramanujan, mathematician (1887–1920 CE) Satya Churn Law, naturalist and ornithologist (1888–1984 CE) Sisir Kumar Mitra, radio and atmospheric physicist (1890–1963 CE) Birbal Sahni, paleobotanist (1891–1949 CE)
After more than 70 years, King Charles has officially ascended the British throne. But what does this mean for his sister and his two brothers? King Charles’s siblings have spent their lives in ...
Subrahmanyan was born in Lahore on 19 October 1910 of the British Raj (present-day Pakistan) in a Tamil family, [10] to Sita Balakrishnan (1891–1931) and Chandrasekhara Subrahmanya Ayyar (1885–1960) [11] who was stationed in Lahore as Deputy Auditor General of the Northwestern Railways at the time of Chandrasekhar's birth. He had two elder ...
Serena and Venus Williams are the two most famous sisters in tennis. But the close-knit pair share 10 other siblings from their parents' other marriages and relationships.