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Early life
On an ocean voyage in 1921, Raman was struck by the intense blue colour of the sea. Rejecting the accepted view that the sea reflects the colour of the sky, he proposed the colour was a result of white sunlight being scattered (reflected in many directions) as it hit water molecules. When this happens, a part of the light changes colour to blue at it scatters. This was called THE RAMAN EFFECT. For this discovery, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930.
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was born in India in 1888. Raman was always fascinated by natural phenomena and began his research into light and sound waves while he was still a STUDENT. In 1917, he became a Professor of Physics at Calcutta University.
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