Nobel Prize in Physics 1930
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Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1930 was awarded to Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman "for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him"
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