C. V. Raman

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Nobel laureate human physicist

C. V. Raman was an Indian physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for discovering the Raman effect, which describes the inelastic scattering of light.

Aliases (1)

Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman ×1

Statements (53)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Nobel laureate → human → physicist →
awardReceived	Bharat Ratna → Fellow of the Royal Society → Knight Bachelor → Lenin Peace Prize → Nobel Prize in Physics →
causeOfDeath	natural causes →
child	Radhakrishnan Venkataraman →
commemoratedBy	National Science Day in India →
countryOfCitizenship	British India → India →
dateOfBirth	1888-11-07 →
dateOfDeath	1970-11-21 →
degree	Master of Arts in Physics →
discovery	Raman effect →
discoveryYear	1928 →
educatedAt	Presidency College, Madras → University of Madras →
employer	Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science → Indian Institute of Science → University of Calcutta →
familyName	Raman →
fieldOfWork	optics → physics → spectroscopy →
founded	Indian Academy of Sciences →
fullName	Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman →
givenName	Chandrasekhara → Venkata →
influenced	development of Raman spectroscopy →
knownFor	Raman effect → Raman scattering → work on light scattering →
memberOf	Indian Academy of Sciences → Royal Society →
nobelPrizeCategory	Physics →
nobelPrizeMotivation	for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him →
nobelPrizeYear	1930 →
occupation	academic → physicist →
placeOfBirth	British India → Madras Presidency → Tiruchirappalli →
placeOfDeath	Bangalore → India → Mysore State →
positionHeld	Director of the Indian Institute of Science → President of the Indian Academy of Sciences → Professor of Physics at the University of Calcutta →
religion	Hinduism →
spouse	Lokasundari Ammal →

Referenced by (7)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Meghnad Saha →	doctoralAdvisor
Bharat Ratna →	firstRecipient
C. V. Raman ("Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman") →	fullName
University of Madras →	hasNotableAlumni
Presidency College, Madras →	notableAlumnus
Rumford Medal →	notableRecipient
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar →	relative