SIr Chandrashekar Venkataraman - Indian Nobel Prize

INDIAN NOBEL LAUREATES
                                                             Sir CHANDRASHEKAR

                                                                                                 VENKATARAMAN (1888-1970)                                                                                                       

He was born near Tiruchinapalli in Tamil Nadu. He earned a master's degree in physics at Presidency College, Madras, in 1907. Later he became a professor of physics at the University of Calcutta in 1917, In 1933, he moved to the Indian Institute of Science, at Bangalore (Bengalooru), as head of the department of physics. He founded the Indian Journal of Physics and the Indian Academy of Sciences. He contributed to the building up of, Physics and the Indian research institute in his time, He received many honours and awards, including the title of "Sir. He received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930. He proposed a theory relating to the scattering of light known as 'Raman Effect' His theory, discovered in 1928, explains the change in the frequency of light passing through a transparent medium. HE received the Bharat Ratna in 1954.