When Piketty came to India
Thomas Piketty, the French economist and author of the famous book Capital in the Twenty First Century, was recently in India. He delivered a lecture on the state of inequality globally as well as in India.
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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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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— Mamata Banerjee (@MamataOfficial) February 28, 2018
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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