and Google has highlighted on its
India home page the work for which the physicist won a Nobel. The
postage-stamp-like Google doodle celebrating CV Raman's birthday has Sir
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman's (his full name) face appearing behind the letter
G and on the adjacent stamp to the right the other letters in the Google logo
demonstrate the Raman effect. ALSO SEE Google doodles Srinivasa Ramanujan's
125th birthday CV Raman was born on November 7, 1888 in Trichinopoly (now
Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu). After passing out of Presidency College, Madras
with a master's degree in physics in 1907 Raman joined government service as an
accountant and in 1917 became a professor of physics at the University of
Calcutta.
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