Who was C.V. Raman?

Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, commonly known as C.V. Raman, was a pioneering Indian physicist celebrated for his groundbreaking research in the field of light scattering. Born on November 7, 1888, in Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu, he became one of India’s most renowned scientists. Raman worked extensively on the behavior of light and discovered the phenomenon that later became known as the Raman Effect. He was the first Asian to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930. Apart from his research, Raman also inspired generations of scientists through his teaching and leadership at the Indian Institute of Science and Raman Research Institute.