Sir Chrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888-1970)

Awarded the Prize “for his work on the scattering of light for the discovery of the effect named after him.”

Indian physicist. Raman was born at Trichinopoly in India on November 7, 1888. He was educated at the University of Madras where he obtained his B.A. in 1904 his M.A. in 1907. In 1917 he took up an appointment as Professor of Physics at the University of Calcutta. In 1933 he moved to Bangalore where he first headed the Physics Department at the Indian Institute of Science later, in 1948, became founding Director of the Raman Institute. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1924. Raman died in Bangalore on November 21, 1970.