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Died. Sir Chandrasekhara V. Raman, 82, Indian physicist who won the 1930 Nobel Prize for his work on the diffusion of light; in Bangalore, India. Professor at the University of Calcutta, Raman discovered in the late 1920s that when a beam of monochromatic light shines through a transparent substance like quartz or water, the wave length, and thus the color, of some of the scattered rays is changed. The Raman effect, as it was called, became useful in determining fine molecular structure...
These are the conclusions of a small, soft-spoken Hindu astrophysicist, Dr. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar of the University of Chicago. Born in Lahore 32 years ago, he is a graduate of Madras and Cambridge Universities, a nephew of Sir Chandrasekhara Raman, who won a Nobel Prize (1930) for his studies on diffusion of light...
...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...