why did raman take physics for his higher education
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Raman only knows what he wants to become that's why he has taken physics
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Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (/ˈrɑːmən/;[1] 7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) was an Indian physicist known mainly for his work in the field of light scattering.[2] With his student K. S. Krishnan, he discovered that when light traverses a transparent material, some of the deflected light changes wavelength and amplitude. This phenomenon was a new type of scattering of light and was subsequently termed as the Raman effect (Raman scattering).[3][4] Raman won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics and was the first Asian person to receive a Nobel Prize in any branch of science.[5]
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C. V. Raman in 1930.
Born
7 November 1888
Tiruchirapalli, Madras Presidency, British India
(Tamil Nadu, India)
Died
21 November 1970 (aged 82)
Bangalore, Mysore State, India
Nationality
British subject
Republic of India
Alma mater
University of Madras (M.A.)
Known for
Raman effect
Spouse(s)
Lokasundari Ammal (1908–1970)
Children
Chandrasekhar Raman and Venkatraman Radhakrishnan
Awards
Fellow of the Royal Society (1924)
Matteucci Medal (1928)
Knight Bachelor (1930)
Hughes Medal (1930)
Nobel Prize in Physics (1930)
Bharat Ratna (1954)
Lenin Peace Prize (1957)
Scientific career
Fields
Physics
Institutions
Indian Finance Department
Rajabazar Science College
(University of Calcutta)
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
Indian Institute of Science
Raman Research Institute
Doctoral students
G. N. Ramachandran
Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai
Shivaramakrishnan Pancharatnam
Other notable students
Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan
K. R. Ramanathan
Signature
Chandrashekhara Venkata Raman, signature.svg
Born to Hindu Tamil Brahmin parents, Raman was a precocious child, completing his secondary and higher secondary education from St Aloysius' Anglo-Indian High School at the ages of 11 and 13, respectively. He topped bachelor's degree examination at the University of Madras with honours in physics from Presidency College at age 16. His first research paper, on diffraction of light, was published in 1906 while still a graduate student. The next year he obtained an M.A. degree. He was 19 years of age when he joined the Indian Finance Service in Kolkata as Assistant Accountant General. There he became acquainted with the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), the first research institute in India, which allowed him to do independent research and where he made his major contributions in acoustics and optics.
In 1917, he was appointed as the first Palit Professor of Physics by Ashutosh Mukherjee at the Rajabazar Science College under the University of Calcutta. On his first trip to Europe, seeing the Mediterranean Sea motivated him to correctly describe the reason for the blue colour of the sea as a phenomenon of diffraction. He founded the Indian Journal of Physics in 1926. He and Krishnan discovered on 28 February 1928 a novel phenomenon of light scattering, which they called "modified scattering," but more famously known as the Raman effect. The day is celebrated by the Government of India as the National Science Day every year.[6] Raman moved to the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore in 1933 to become its first Indian Director. There he founded the Indian Academy of Sciences the same year. He established the Raman Research Institute in 1948 where he worked to his last days.