Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman Biography and Timeline

Palit Chair of Physics

C. V. Raman takes the Palit Professorship of Physics at the University of Calcutta and expands his experimental research programme.

Role range: 1917-1933

Scattering of Light

C. V. Raman studies the blue colour of the Mediterranean and intensifies his investigation of light scattering in liquids.

Molecular Diffraction

C. V. Raman develops his molecular diffraction approach to explain how light is scattered by liquids.

Raman Effect

C. V. Raman and his collaborators observe the inelastic scattering of light now known as the Raman effect.

Nobel Prize in Physics

C. V. Raman receives the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on light scattering and the discovery of the Raman effect.

Nobel Prize

Receives the Nobel Prize in Physics for work on the scattering of light and for discovering the optical effect now known as the Raman effect.