The Niels Bohr Archive's
History of Science Seminar
Wednesday 25 October at 10:15
Auditorium A, Niels Bohr Institute
Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen

Rajinder Singh
Diplom-Physiker, University of Oldenburg, Germany

Sir C.V. Raman and the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930

Raman scattering (in Russia called combination scattering) was discovered in 1928 by Indian physicists (C.V. Raman and K.S. Krishnan) and Russian scientists (G.S. Landsberg and L.I. Mandelstam) nearly at the same time. In 1930 the Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to Sir C.V. Raman, while the Russians and Raman's co-worker were ignored. In this lecture the reasons for this will be illustrated.


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