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C. V. Raman

Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q38104&amp;oldid=2554687416" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Nobel Prize in Physics · dated 1930
Notable work: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q55442229&amp;oldid=2510959659" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">A New Type of Secondary Radiation
Employer: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q806116&amp;oldid=2523837638" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Banaras Hindu University
Education: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q1364464&amp;oldid=2553810284" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">University of Madras
Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q308907&amp;oldid=2447800363" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Lenin Peace Prize · dated 1957
Notable work: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q466824&amp;oldid=2515868657" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Raman scattering

Wikidata describes C. V. Raman as Indian physicist (1888–1970).

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