Rubik’s Cube Mosaic of Sir C.V. Raman
Rubik’s Cube Mosaic of Sir C.V. Raman for National Science Day 2019
Some facts to know
About
Sir Chandrashekhara Venkata Raman (7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) was an
Indian Tamil physicist born in the former Madras Province in India.
Work
He discovered that when light traverses a transparent material,
some of the deflected light changes wavelength and amplitude. This phenomenon, subsequently
known as Raman scattering, results from the Raman effect.
National Science Day
Every year National Science Day is celebrated on 28th February to mark the discovery of Raman
Effect by Sir Chandrashekhara Venkata Raman on the same day in the year 1928, for which he
was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930.
