Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970

Indian quantum physicist, known for the Raman effect: (Why is the sky blue?) Winner of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics. Fellow of the Royal Society. Distinguish from his nephew Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, also a distinguished physicist, who discovered the Chandrasekhar limit on the minimum stellar masses which may form black holes.

• The new physics
• The new physics
• The new physics
• C.V. Raman
• Molecular diffraction of light
• Molecular diffraction of light
• Scientific Papers of C.V. Raman: Volume VI
• Aspects of science
• Crystals and photons
• Lectures on Physical Optics, Part I
• Memoirs on Crystal Physics
• Molecular Diffraction of Light