Indian Google doodle honours Nobel laureate physicist CV Raman on his 125th birth anniversary today

Only a couple of days ago Google paid tribute to Indian mathematician prodigy Shakuntala Devi on their homepage, on her 84th birthday.

And, today, once again Google doodle turns eastward for intellectual inspiration. Indian physicist and Nobel laureate CV Raman has been immortlised by the online giant in its most recent doodle that marks his 125th birth anniversary.

Raman is best known for his discovery in the changes in wavelength of light while traversing transparent material, a phenomenon that is now called the 'Raman scattering' or the 'Raman effect'.

CV Raman was born in 1888 in what used to be the Madras presidency under British India. His father R. Chandrasekhara Iyer was a mathematics and physics professor at Presidency College in Madras, and was a constant that influenced Raman's future path. Raman enrolled in the college his father taught at, at the tender age of 13 and within a couple of years had secured his Baccalaureate along with a gold medal in Physics.

This child prodigy then went on to be awarded the Nobel prize for his work in Physics. Apart from that, he was also bestowed with Bharat Ratna in 1954 and the Lenin peace prize in 1957.

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