The only Scientific work from India to win a Nobel Prize - The Raman Effect

Опубликовано: 27 Февраль 2026
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The story of how CV Raman discovered the Raman Effect. What is the Raman Effect? This video is designed for a layman.

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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:19 - Why is the sky blue?
04:03 - Raman’s voyage over the Mediterranean Sea
05:48 - The Discovery of the Raman Effect
06:51 - The inelastic scattering of photons
10:11 - Raman Spectroscopy
11:11 - India’s only Nobel Prize in Science

Got help on this video from Amit Ganguli (twitter: amit_ganguli)

Sources:
[1] https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/192...

[2] https://www.thebetterindia.com/132554...

[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/121619b0

[4] https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/ed...

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