He was born to a Tamil family on November 7, 1888, in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu. He topped his undergraduate degree examination with Physics honours at the age of 16 at the University of Madras and later got his MSc degree from the same university with the highest distinction. He also received the Nobel Prize for the scattering of light and the Raman effect in the year 1930.
CV Raman's career as an Assistant Accountant General started at the age of 19 when he joined the Indian Finance Service in Kolkata.
Though he was employed in service. His heart and soul were in science. He was still into research at IACS and published papers in the leading international journals like ‘Nature’ and ‘Physics Review’.
He became the first Indian Director of the Indian Institute of Science (IISC), Bangalore, in 1933. He was the director till 1937 and the head of the physics department till 1948.
The Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science(IACS) allowed him to pursue independent research in the field he was interested in. His contribution involved acoustics and optics.
Raman’s first research paper on the topic of diffraction of light was published when he was in his graduation in the year 1906 on the topic.
His initial research was experimenting on the scattering of light and then came the Raman Spectroscopy for discovering vibrational, rotational, and other low-frequency modes.
CV Raman’s work also included acoustics of musical instruments and photons on light to exhibit angular momentum in 1932.
He received the Bharat Ratan, the highest civilian award in the year 1954.
The University of Calcutta assigned Ph.D. students to guide them during their doctorate courses. Many universities, like the University of Allahabad, Rangoon University, Queen's College Indore, the Institute of Science, Nagpur, Krisnath College, and the University of Madras also preferred him to continue as a mentor to Ph.D. students.
In 1919, Raman received two honorary positions at the IACS, as the Honorary Professor and Honorary Secretary. He considered it as the golden era of his life.
He retired from the Indian Institute of Science in 1948 and created the Raman Research Institute in Bengaluru in 1949. He was the director and was active till his death on November 21, 1970.
Check the list of awards won by C.V. Raman:
- 1924: Elected as Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1930: Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1941: Franklin Medal
- 1954: Bharat Ratna
- 1957: Lenin Peace Prize
- 1988: The American Chemical Society and the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science recognised his discovery as an International Historic Chemical Landmark.
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