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National Science Day: Mamata extends wishes to scientists in India

On National Science Day, the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday gave her best wishes to all the scientists…

National Science Day: Mamata extends wishes to scientists in India

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. (Photo: Facebook)

On National Science Day, the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday gave her best wishes to all the scientists in India.

The Chief Minister in a tweet said, “Today is National Science Day, celebrated to mark the discovery of the Raman Effect by Sir CV Raman. My best wishes to all the scientists in India. Let us strive to inculcate the scientific temper among our younger generation”.

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National Science Day is celebrated in India on 28 February each year to mark the discovery of the Raman effect by Indian physicist Sir Chandrashekhara Venkata Raman on 28 February 1928.

CV Raman who carried out ground-breaking work in the field of light scattering, which earned him the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics.

He discovered that when light traverses a transparent material, some of the deflected light changes wavelength. This phenomenon, subsequently known as Raman scattering, results from the Raman effect.

In 1954, India honoured him with its highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna.

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