“The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.”

— C. V. Raman · Wisdom quote

“The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.”

— C. V. RAMAN

Physicist · 1888 – 1970

Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was an Indian physicist who won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering that light changes wavelength when it passes through a transparent material, the Raman effect. He founded the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Raman Research Institute in Bengaluru.

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