<b>7 November 1888:</b>
Born, Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Physicist, and the first ever non-white to have won a Nobel in Sciences. Born in Tiruchirapalli, brought up in Vishakhapatnam, he began his career as an accountant in Indian Finance Department in Kolkata. Destiny took a turn when he accidentally noticed a signboard of Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), and he started conducting his researches after office hours. His interest in physics continued and he joined a fellowship in Physics Dept. of Calcutta University in 1917. It is from here that he finally announced on February 28, 1928, the path breaking Raman Effect, the discovery of molecular scattering of light, which won him a Nobel Award in 1930. 1934 onwards he served the newly founded IISc Bangalore as its director for 12 years before retiring.
During the Hitlers period, he was communicating with several contemporary Jewish scientists and intellectuals of Europe inviting them passionately to come to India, offering them positions and fellowships in IISc, Calcutta University and BHU. His agenda was to bring the following stalvarts to India: Max Born, Schrödinger (Pioneer in Quantum Mechanics, of Schrödinger equation fame), Hevesy (of radioactivity), VM Goldschmidt (Father of Solid State Chemistry), Ewald (Pioneer in Optics, Crystallography), Huhn (eary biochemist). He personally persuaded them and arranged for their travel to india, had some of them visit Bangalore and Calcutta to see for themselves the local environment by creating for them visiting chairs in the Indian universities. His plans could not materialize due to the cunning of British and mAyA of the US of America.
He was a Hindu to the very core, and a straunch nationalist. His scientist temparament was also attracted towards many of our cultural aspects too. His lecture in London just before the Nobel prize acceptance, on the scientific basis of the structure of Indic languages is interesting. He also did profound research on the accoustics of Indian Classical Music. His interesting research paper on this subject: The acoustical knowledge of the ancient Hindus, Sir Asutosh Mookerjee Silver Jubilee 1922, University Press Calcutta.
(28 Feb, date when he announced his Raman Effect, is celebrated as Science Day in India)
Born, Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Physicist, and the first ever non-white to have won a Nobel in Sciences. Born in Tiruchirapalli, brought up in Vishakhapatnam, he began his career as an accountant in Indian Finance Department in Kolkata. Destiny took a turn when he accidentally noticed a signboard of Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), and he started conducting his researches after office hours. His interest in physics continued and he joined a fellowship in Physics Dept. of Calcutta University in 1917. It is from here that he finally announced on February 28, 1928, the path breaking Raman Effect, the discovery of molecular scattering of light, which won him a Nobel Award in 1930. 1934 onwards he served the newly founded IISc Bangalore as its director for 12 years before retiring.
During the Hitlers period, he was communicating with several contemporary Jewish scientists and intellectuals of Europe inviting them passionately to come to India, offering them positions and fellowships in IISc, Calcutta University and BHU. His agenda was to bring the following stalvarts to India: Max Born, Schrödinger (Pioneer in Quantum Mechanics, of Schrödinger equation fame), Hevesy (of radioactivity), VM Goldschmidt (Father of Solid State Chemistry), Ewald (Pioneer in Optics, Crystallography), Huhn (eary biochemist). He personally persuaded them and arranged for their travel to india, had some of them visit Bangalore and Calcutta to see for themselves the local environment by creating for them visiting chairs in the Indian universities. His plans could not materialize due to the cunning of British and mAyA of the US of America.
He was a Hindu to the very core, and a straunch nationalist. His scientist temparament was also attracted towards many of our cultural aspects too. His lecture in London just before the Nobel prize acceptance, on the scientific basis of the structure of Indic languages is interesting. He also did profound research on the accoustics of Indian Classical Music. His interesting research paper on this subject: The acoustical knowledge of the ancient Hindus, Sir Asutosh Mookerjee Silver Jubilee 1922, University Press Calcutta.
(28 Feb, date when he announced his Raman Effect, is celebrated as Science Day in India)