Sir cv raman autobiography of a face
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Sairam friends,
As Google celebrates 125th Birthday of Sir.C.V.Raman, I was inspired to relate how much Saints like Shirdi Saibaba gave respect both to life and inanimate objects. Sai was detached from wordly desires and things of every day use but he respected and cared for the things he used.
First a little about Sir.C.V.Raman from wikipedia:
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, FRS (7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) was an Indian physicist whose work was influential in the growth of science in India. He was the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930 for the discovery that when light traverses a transparent material, some of the deflected light changes in wavelength. This phenomenon is now called Raman scattering and is the result of the Raman effect.
I am surprised to read that he was so sure that he will get the Nobel prize that he reserved ticket to Sweden six month in advance.
Sai’s little possession was an old Tin to get oil, some vessels to take alms every day, a Chillum with which his close devotees and Sai himself use to smoke. When Shirdi Saibaba was photographed without permission, Sai usually doesn’t appear on it and very rarely when Sai gave permission, Sai used to tell the photographer “You can sell it but sell it for affordable p
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Talented and ambitious from the first, for Indian physicist C. V. Raman, winning the Nobel prize for physics was not so much a distant aspiration as a career plan. He was the first person of colour and the first Asian to receive the award, following the discovery of a light scattering effect that has since become a key characterisation tool in materials science.
Physics and academia ran in Raman’s family, where he was one of eight siblings. His father was a teacher at the local high school, later moving his family to Andhra Pradesh, where he took on a position in the faculty of physics at Mrs A.V. Narasimha Rao College. Raman’s nephew Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar also showed a flair for physics, culminating in the Nobel prize in physics in 1983.
Raman’s own proficiency in physics was recognised early on. He graduated with a BA from the Presidency College at the University of Madras in 1904 aged 16, winning gold medals in both physics and English. He published his first scientific paper as a graduate student aged 18 on “Unsymmetrical diffraction-bands due to a rectangular aperture” in the British journal Philosophical Magazine in 1906.
However, health concerns caused him to forgo the chance to pursue his research in England, and he took a post as an accountan