Author: Dilip M Salvi
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 64
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8171677851
Description
This is the true story of a giant in the history of Indian science who dedicated his life to the development of a scientific research in India.
On a cruise from England to India, an Indian scientist wondered how on a dull and grey day, the waters of the Mediterranean Sea could be so blue. It was this simple question that gave birth to the famous Raman Effect for which C V Raman won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930.
Working with little money, using primitive instruments in a makeshift, laboratory, Raman's discovery is considered to be one of the four major discoveries in experimental physics of the early twentieth century that provided strong evidence in favor of the Quantum Theory.
This is the true story of a giant in the history of Indian science who dedicated his life to the development of a scientific research in India.
Contents
CHAPTER One
The Blue of the Mediterranean
CHAPTER Two
The Professional Scientist
CHAPTER Three
The Raman Effect
CHAPTER Four
The Nobel Indian
CHAPTER Fiver
The Misunderstood Scientist
Sayings of C V Raman
Headlines of C V Raman
Bibliography