In 1930, Indian Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on light scattering, making him the first Asian and non-white person to receive the award.
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) was an Indian physicist who specialised in light scattering. Using a spectrograph he invented, he and his student K. S. Krishnan found that as light passes through a transparent medium, the wavelength and frequency of the deflected light changes. Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, an Indian, receives the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for his work on light scattering, making him the first Asian and non-white person to do so.
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