C.V. Raman: A Biography

by Uma Parameswaran

The compelling story of a trailblazer of modern science In 1921, while on a voyage to England, Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was amazed by the spectacular blue of the Mediterranean Sea. Seven years of research led to the Raman Effect, an explanation of the molecular diffraction of light that won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930the first non-white and first Asian to be thus honoured. Always a nationalist, Raman strove to win a place for PBI -...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143066897
• ISBN13: 9780143066897
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Penguin Books India
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.9"