The November 1906 issue of the then famous The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science carried a scientific paper written by an 18-year-old student from The Presidency College, Madras, heralding the arrival of a luminary in the international scientific arena.
He was Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, popularly known as C.V. Raman, who went on to become the first Asian 24 years later to win a Nobel Prize in a science field in 1930 “for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him.”
Until today, Raman is technically the only Indian citizen to have received a Nobel in science (excluding economics) as the other three — Har Gobind Khorana, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and Venki Ramakrishnan — had become citizens of other countries when they received the prize.
