NOBEL PRIZE AWARD.
PHYSICIST IN INDIA. RESEARCH INTO LIGHT. (Received November 14, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. Nov. 14. The Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to Sir Chandrasekhara . Y enkata Raman, for his work on the diffusion of light.
Sir C. V. Raman is professor of physics at Calcutta University. He was born in IflOH and studied at Presidency College, Madras, where he had a distinguished career. He had been president of the Indian Science Congress and has lectured in England and America. He Las written on the diffraction of light and of the X-rays and on many scientific matters in the jending reviews. He in a Fellow of the Royal Society and was knighted last year.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20722, 15 November 1930, Page 11
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