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SIR C. V. RAMAN has been appointed the first National Research Professor in India ; he has just retired from‘nis professorship at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. It is expected that he will take up his new duties immediately and will work at the newly founded Research Institute under the auspices of the Indian Academy of Sciences at Bangalore. This appointment is the first of its kind in India. Sir C. V. Raman is known particularly for his work on the molecular scattering of light, whereby the frequency of incident radiation is changed by an amount characteristic of the scattering compound. This had been predicted On theoretical grounds, but it was first observed by Raman and is generally known as the ‘Raman effect'. It has proved of great interest and importance in studying the theory of the structure of chemical compounds. Among the many honours received by Sir C. V. Raman are the Nobel Prize for Physics (1930), Hughes Medal of the Royal Society (1930), and the Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia (1942).
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Sir C. V. Raman, F.R.S. Nature 163, 54 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163054b0
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