CV Raman (Awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1954)
One of the most eminent scientists and Nobel Prize winning physicist, Sir Chandrashekhar Venkata Raman, better known as CV Raman. He was born on November 7, 1888 and died in 1970. His father Chandrashekhar Iyer was a lecturer in Maths and Physics. This is the reason why Raman was inspired to do science course. Chandrasekhar Venkata Raman’s mother was Parvati Ammal. He scored the highest marks in the history of the university and also secured first position in the IAS examination.
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (CV Raman) was an internationally acclaimed scientist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930, is often cited around the world for his work dealing with the scattering of light, specifically the changing wavelength of diverted light. He was the first Indian scientist to have been awarded a Nobel prize and the second Indian origin Nobel awardee, superseded only by Rabindranath Tagore (literature). Raman was also the founder of the Indian Journal of Physics (1926), as well as its first editor. In 1949, he established the Raman Research Institute in Bangalore, Karnataka, where he served as the director until his death in 1970.
