Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman M.A. [Physics]

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1930

Atomic Physicist. Molecular Diffraction of Light. Raman Effect. Structure, optical behaviour of iridescent substances. Acoustics, violin.

Raman lost Nobel Prize money to fraudulent financer. Meeting fraudster years later, he said: You deserve Nobel Prize for your cunning in duping Nobel Laureate!

Playful comment: Unfortunately Economics Nobel instituted later in 1969!

Innovation

C.V. Raman, a physicist in India, was conducting research on Light Diffraction. One of his students was cheerless. Somebody else conducting research on the same subject in England had a ten-kilowatt X-Ray tube. The boy possessed only a one-kilowatt X-Ray tube. That was the cause of the boy being cheerless.

Raman said to the student, "Use a 10-kilowatt brain!"