Maharashtra State PSC Model Paper 3

The correct answer is Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman.

• India's first physicist to win a Nobel Physics Prize in 1930, for his work on the scattering of light.
• The discovery of the effect was named after him (Raman Effect).
• He further established that a small portion of the scattered light acquires other wavelengths than that of the original light because some of the incoming photons' energy can be transferred to a molecule, giving it a higher level of energy.