raman

Ra·man   (rä'mən)    Indian physicist. He won a 1930 Nobel Prize for his discovery of the Raman effect.

Main Entry: Ra·man
Pronunciation: 'rä-m&n
Function: adjective
: of, relating to, using, or caused by the Raman effect
Raman,Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata (1888–1970), Indian physicist. Raman discovered in 1928 that when light of one frequency was transmitted through a medium, other frequencies were addedand that they were characteristic of the material. The use of the Raman effect in determining fine molecular structure was instrumental in the making of laser spectrometers. In 1930 he was awarded theNobel Prize for Physics.

Raman   (rä'mən)  Pronunciation Key  Indian physicist who in 1928 demonstrated that when light traverses a transparent material, some of the light that is deflected changes in frequency. For the discovery of this effect, which is now named after him, Raman received the 1930 Nobel Prize for physics. He also conducted research in the physiology of vision.