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Historical Event on 11/7/1888
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist, was born in Tiruchirapalli, South India. His work was influential in the growth of science in India. He was the recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics for the 1928 discovery now called 'Raman scattering'--a change in frequency observed when light is scattered in a transparent material. When monochromatic or laser light is passed through a transparent gas, liquid, or solid and is observed with the spectroscope, the normal spectral line has associated with it lines of longer and of shorter wavelength called the Raman spectrum. Thus the Raman effect is applied in spectrographic chemical analysis and in the determination of molecular structure.
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11/18/1964 | Dharam Vira was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 27-06-1966 |
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1/29/1999 | Alok Kumar of Punjab defeated Devendra Joshi of Maharashtra at the IIT complex at New Delhi. |
5/19/1980 | T. N. Raina, former General of India, passed away. |
12/16/2000 | Kalyan Banerjee becomes the first Indian to head the Rotary Foundation, one of the richest bodies of the Rotary International. |
3/4/1991 | Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha presents mid-term budget, cut in food and fertiliser subsidy, amounting to Rs. 934 crore, proposed. |
12/29/1949 | Syed Mujtaba Hussain Kirmani, cricketer (Indian keeper after Engineer), was born in Madras. |
6/12/1947 | Gandhiji addresses Congress Working Committee. |
11/27/1946 | London announces parley on India; Muslims accept, Hindus decline. |
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