CV Raman:
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Chandrashekhara Venkata Raman was a physicist from Tamil Nadu.
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His work in the field of light scattering earned him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930.
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This phenomenon was named the Raman effect.
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In 1954, he was honoured with India’s highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna.
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National Science Day (NSD) is celebrated annually on 28th February to commemorate the discovery of the Raman Effect by Nobel laureate and Physicist CV Raman on this day in 1928.
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