Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was an Indian physicist, who became the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize in Physics.
C.V. Raman was born in the former Madras Province in British India, presently the state of Tamil Nadu.
He carried out ground-breaking work in the field of light scattering, which earned him the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics. Raman led experiments at the Indian Association for Cultivation of Science with collaborators, including K. S. Krishnan, on the scattering of light. He discovered that, when light traverses a transparent material, some of the deflected light changes in wavelength. This phenomenon is now called Raman scattering and is the result of the Raman Effect.
Raman was president of the 16th session of the Indian Science Congress in 1929. He was conferred a knighthood, and medals and honorary doctorates by various universities.
In 1954, India honoured him with its highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna. Raman died in 1970, in Bangalore, at the age of 82.
