Word: chandrasekhara
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...something else when the research reaches a stage where long routine labor is in prospect. He once, it is now known, had the Raman Effect** in his apparatus, trembling on the verge of detection, but he did not detect it. The phenomenon was discovered in 1928 by Physicist Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman of India, who received the Nobel Prize in 1930. In his humbler moments, Wood admits that, even had he discovered the phenomenon, he did not have the theoretical background which would have conveyed to him its importance. But in experimental physics, the diverse contributions of Robert Williams Wood have...
...Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman...
famed physicist of Calcutta University, Nobel Prizeman last year (TIME, July 6) sorrowfully declined an invitation to lecture on his experiments in light at California Institute of Technology (where he visited briefly seven years ago). Reason: he is too poor. Said Sir Chandrasekhara: "i have little or no means of continuing my own studies and unhappily there is little realization in my own country of the importance of research...
...billiard or pool player or a bowler better than most people can get an understanding of an important physical observation, reported last week by Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, great Indian physicist. Sir Chandrasekhara was scientifically succinct in his announcement. Very few details reached Europe or the Americas. But, according to what he has done in the past and according to the corroborative work of other students, this, simply, is what he said...
...twirling of light particles is a new realization in physics. What makes the fact quickly acceptable to other physicists is that Sir Chandrasekhara says he has proved it true. Although he learned all his science in India and has done all his scientific work there, Occidental scientists know his results well. Light has not been his sole research. He has worked out a mechanical theory of bowed strings and violin tone, and a theory of musical instruments. Seven years ago he made a brief visit to California Institute of Technology at Pasadena, rendezvous of Nobel Prize winners. Word from...