C.V.Raman was born at Thiruvanaikaval, near Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for the effect named after him. from Kolkata] Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for the year 1930. He had been knighted only the year before and worked extensively on acoustics and light. He was also deeply interested in the physiology of the human eye. A traditionally-dressed man, he headed an institute that is today named after him: the Raman Research Institute, Bangalore. The roster of Nobel laureates from India before Independence is surprising in its omission of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The Norwegian Nobel Committee confirmed that Gandhi was nominated for the Peace Prize in 1937–39, 1947 and a few days before he was assassinated in January 1948. Later members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee expressed regret that he was not given the prize. Geir Lundestad, Secretary of Norwegian Nobel Committee in 2006 said, The greatest omission in our 106 year history is undoubtedly that Mahatma Gandhi never received the Nobel Peace prize. Gandhi could do without the Nobel Peace prize. Whether Nobel committee can do without Gandhi is the question. In 1948, the year of Gandhis death, the Nobel Committee declined to award a prize on the grounds that there was no suitable living candidate that year.
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