5 Jul 2013

FACTS ABOUT C.V. RAMAN

C.V. RAMAN actually stands for 
CHANDRASHEKARA VENKATA RAMAN.

He was the first non-white , Asian and Indian to be awarded the Nobel Prize in sciences.

He is awarded for discovering THE RAMAN EFFECT

On 21/11/1971 in memory of C.V. RAMAN 
a stamped is issued. 

He was awarded by the Bharat Ratna in 1954.

His  maternal nephew  Subramanyan Chandrashekar who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1983 for his discovery of the Chandrashekar limit.


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