Bhopal: Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan paid homage to Shri Chandrashekhar Venkataraman on his anniversary. Chief Minister Shri Chouhan paid floral tribute by garlanding his picture in the auditorium at his residence.
Indian physicist Shri Chandrashekhar Venkataraman was born on November 7, 1888 in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu. In 1930, he was awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize in Physics for his outstanding work on the scattering of light. This invention is known as the Raman Effect after his name. In 1954, he was honoured with the title of Bharat Ratna by the Government of India. In 1957, he was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize.
Shri Chandrashekhar Venkataraman discovered the Raman Effect on February 28, 1928, in memory of which this day is celebrated every year in India as ‘National Science Day’. He passed away on November 21, 1970 in Bengaluru.
