Raman

Indian physicist. His father was a mathematics and physics teacher, and he inherited his interest in science and musical instruments from him. He studied at the University of Madras, where he thoroughly read books on acoustics by JWS Rayleigh and HLF von Helmholtz. As scientific research careers in India at the time were not considered promising, he worked for the Ministry of Finance for 10 years. During that time he continued his theoretical and experimental research into musical instruments, and in 1917 he was appointed professor of physics at the University of Calcutta in recognition of his work. In the early 1920s he shifted his focus to optics, and experimentally discovered why light scattered from pure glycerin is green rather than blue. This Raman effect was recognized as the foundation of quantum theory, and in 1930 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. In 1934 he founded the Indian Academy of Science, serving as its president, and contributed greatly to the rise of science in India.

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インドの物理学者．父は，数学・物理学の教師で，父から科学と楽器への関心を受け継ぐ．マドラス大学に学び，J.W.S. Rayleigh(レイリー)とH.L.F. von Helmholtz(ヘルムホルツ)の音響学書を熟読した．当時，インドでは科学研究職は将来性があると思われなかったので，10年間大蔵省に勤務．その間も楽器に関する理論的・実験的研究を続け，その功績で1917年カルカッタ大学物理学教授に着任．1920年代はじめから関心を光学に移し，純粋グリセリンからの散乱光が青色でなく緑色になる理由を実験的に突き止めた．このラマン効果は量子論の基礎づけと認められ，1930年ノーベル物理学賞を受賞．1934年インド科学アカデミーを創設して会長を務め，インド科学興隆に貢献した．

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