why did tears start streaming down CV Raman's face during his noble prize reception function
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Every year, National Science Day is observed on February 28. The day was instituted in 1987 in the run-up to the birth centenary of Indian physics Nobel laureate Sir Chandrasekhara Venkat Raman. February 28 is not Raman’s birthday, but it was chosen since it was on this day in 1928 that Raman announced his discovery to the world. He had observed that when a light beam was passed through a liquid or gas, a small part of the scattered beam had a wavelength different from the incident light. This came to be known as the ‘Raman effect’, which won him the Nobel Prize in 1930. After sending details of the discovery in a research paper to the international scientific journal Nature, Raman continued with experiments, and on February 28, 1928, he decided to inform newspapers in Kolkata. This means the real significance of the discovery became clear to Raman only on that day.
Raman’s Nobel in the early decades of the 20th century remains the high point in Indian science, and has been a subject of several myths and stories that keep surfacing from time to time. The most popular among them is about Raman crying while receiving the prize because he did so under the British flag.
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