Word: venkata
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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...
...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...
...State Banquet (on gold plate) began, red-faced, protuberant-eyed Author Lewis found himself beside Princess Ingrid, blonde Royal granddaughter, thus had a definite edge of precedence over the three other Nobel Prizemen present: Medical Researcher Dr. Karl Landsteiner (Manhattan), Chemist Hans Fischer (Munich) and Physicist Sir Chandrase- Hara Venkata Raman of Calcutta (TIME, Nov. 24). Buxom, brunette Mrs. Lewis had at her elbow His Majesty's youngest brother Prince Eugen, 65. She remarked heartily afterward, "I have a date with him for Sunday...
...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...