Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

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Born November 7, 1888

Died November 21, 1970 (82 years old)

Tiruchirappalli, India

Also known as: Raman, Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata, Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

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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.