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C. V. Raman

1888 - 1970

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Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (; 7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) was an Indian physicist known for his work in the field of light scattering. Using a spectrograph that he developed, he and his student K. S. Krishnan discovered that when light traverses a transparent material, the deflected light changes its wavelength and frequency. This phenomenon, a hitherto unknown type of scattering of light, which they called "modified scattering" was subsequently termed the Raman effect or Raman scattering. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of C. V. Raman has received more than 9,132,392 page views. His biography is available in 93 different languages on Wikipedia. C. V. Raman is the 99th most popular physicist (down from 85th in 2019), the 44th most popular biography from India (down from 31st in 2019) and the most popular Indian Physicist.

Raman was most famous for his discovery of the Raman Effect, which is the scattering of monochromatic light due to molecular vibrations.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, C. V. Raman ranks 99 out of 717. Before him are Dennis Gabor, James Franck, Manne Siegbahn, William Henry Bragg, Edward Teller, and Walther Bothe. After him are Joseph Henry, Hippolyte Fizeau, Alfred Kastler, Joseph von Fraunhofer, Kip Thorne, and Henry Moseley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, C. V. Raman ranks 19. Before him are Alexander I of Yugoslavia, Raymond Chandler, Jean Monnet, Friedrich Fromm, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, and Friedrich Olbricht. After him are Johannes Itten, Roland Garros, F. W. Murnau, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Alexander Friedmann, and Herbert Spencer Gasser. Among people deceased in 1970, C. V. Raman ranks 25. Before him are François Mauriac, Semyon Timoshenko, Napoleon Hill, Otto Heinrich Warburg, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, and Rudolf Carnap. After him are Jochen Rindt, Eric Berne, Vladimir Propp, Bruce McLaren, Heinrich Brüning, and Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia.

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In India

Among people born in India, C. V. Raman ranks 44 out of 1,493. Before him are Rani of Jhansi (1828), Jahangir (1569), Brahmagupta (598), Tulsidas (1532), Sariputta (-568), and Aishwarya Rai (1973). After him are Bhāskara II (1114), Meera (1498), Amir Khusrow (1253), Mohammed Nadir Shah (1883), Harsha (590), and Tipu Sultan (1750).

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Among PHYSICISTS In India

Among physicists born in India, C. V. Raman ranks 1. After him are Satyendra Nath Bose (1894), Abdul Qadeer Khan (1936), Anna Mani (1918), Homi J. Bhabha (1909), Jayant Narlikar (1938), Vikram Sarabhai (1919), Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893), Tom Kibble (1932), Raja Ramanna (1925), Narinder Singh Kapany (1926), and Abhay Ashtekar (1949).

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