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more general categories information about this item 10. Noble Prize 10. Noble Prize Physics (209) 11. Award Year 11. Award Year 1930s (56) 1930 (5) 12. Winner Type 12. Winner Type Person (904) 13. Gender 13. Gender Male (853) 14. Birth Year 14. Birth Year 1880s (52) 1888 (9) 15. Place of Birth 15. Place of Birth Asia (96) Asia, southern (9) India (8) Trichy (1) 16. Death Year 16. Death Year 1970s (66) 1970 (8) 17. Place of Death 17. Place of Death Asia (33) Asia, southern (3) India (3) Bangalore (1) 19. Given Name 19. Given Name A-D (182) C (45) 20. Family Name 20. Family Name L-R (258) R (44) 23. Religion 23. Religion Irreligion group (86) Agnosticism (11) 24. Age at Award Time 24. Age at Award Time 40 - 49 (140) 43 (15) 32. Occupations 32. Occupations Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations (601) Physical Scientists (333) Astronomers and Physicists (222) Physicists (206) 33. Ethnic Origins 33. Ethnic Origins Asia (244) Asia, southern (9) India (9) 34. Citizens 34. Citizens Europe (450) Europe, western (223) United Kingdom (110) 37. Worked for College or University 37. Worked for College or University Asia (32) Asia, southern (1) India (1) Calcutta (1) Calcutta University (1) 42. Affilliation with College or University 42. Affilliation with College or University North America (529) United States (521) Western states (262) California (253) Pasadena (73) California Institute of Technology (73) Short-term academic staff (40) 44. Memberships 44. Memberships A-D (656) A (635) Academy of Sciences of the USSR (80) E-P (571) H (88) Hungarian Academy of Sciences (61) I (60) Indian National Science Academy (36) P (109) Pontifical Academy of Sciences (83) R-T (460) R (448) Royal Society (294) Russian Academy of Sciences (144) 45. Other Awards 45. Other Awards A-B (362) B (132) Bharat Ratna (3) E-F (439) F (394) Fellow of the Royal Society (101) Franklin Medal (45) G-H (389) H (196) Hughes Medal (29) K-L (297) K (173) Knight Bachelor (22) L (183) Lenin Peace Prize (5) M-N (333) M (172) Matteucci Medal (29) complete name: Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman nobel prize: physics award year: 1930 prize share: Prize share: 1/1 rational: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1930 was awarded to Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman "for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him." biography: Biography laureate facts: Facts laureate lecture: Lecture given name: C. family name: Raman occupation: physicist occupation: university teacher field of work: physics work location: Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India notable work: A New Type of Secondary Radiation description: Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was an Indian physicist born in the former Madras Province in India, who carried out ground-breaking work in the field of light scattering, which earned him the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics. He discovered that when light traverses a transparent material, some of the deflected light changes in wavelength. This phenomenon, subsequently known as Raman scattering, results from the Raman effect. In 1954, India honoured him with its highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna. Raman's father initially taught in a school in Thiruvanaikaval, became a lecturer of mathematics and physics in Mrs. A.V. Narasimha Rao College, Visakhapatnam (then Vishakapatnam) in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, and later joined Presidency College in Madras (now Chennai). (In this Indian name, the name Chandrasekhara is a patronymic, not a family name, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Raman.) image copyright: Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. image citation: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1930. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1930/summary/> date birth: 1888 date death: 1970 usual name: Chandrasekhara Raman
