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...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...
...Awarding of the Nobel Prizes; at Stockholm, Sweden. Annual occasion: anniversary of the death in 1896 of Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Swedish founder of the $9,000,000 fund for international awards. 1930 recipients: Dr. Hans Fischer, in Chemistry; Sinclair (Babbitt) Lewis, in Literature; Dr. Karl Landsteiner, in Medicine ; Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, in Physics...
...known as bone oil, subjected the colorless liquid to a complicated chemical treatment to obtain his results. The synthetic product he called hematine. Or ganic chemists are now experimenting with the substance, using it upon animals to de termine how doctors may employ it to cure human disease. Sir Chandrasekhara Ven kata Raman discovered in 1928 that when monochromatic light shines on a trans parent substance like quartz, chloroform, water, the wavelength of some of the scattered light is changed. Thus what was originally a pure yellow may con tain green, blue. This is now known as the Raman effect...
...Chandrasekhara, unlike Herr Doktor Fischer, is used to fame, has been about more. After his graduation from Presidency College, Madras, he served as an enrolled officer in the Indian finance department. In 1917 he went to the University of Calcutta to teach physics, research on light and sound. The British association chose him as lecturer in 1924, sent him to Toronto. Later that year he was invited to become research associate in physics at California Institute of Technology. At his home in Calcutta where he lives with his wife Lokasundarammal, he works hard, is busy being editor of The Indian...