C. V. Raman

1888 – 1970 · India · Physics

Nobel Prize in Physics, 1930

Raman scattering, now the basis of a ubiquitous laboratory spectroscopy.

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  • Ahmed Zewail

    1946 – 2016 · Chemistry

    Raman scattering is the spectroscopic ancestor of Zewail's femtosecond probing of reactions.

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