A man on the train said: "That seat is reserved." I said: "Well, it's been very forward with me." Pulled up my pants and went on my way.
Lou Sanders
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Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata RamanDied 21 Nov 1970 at age 82 (born 7 Nov 1888).Indian physicist whose work was influential in the growth of science in India. He was the recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics for the 1928 discovery now called Raman scattering: a change in frequency observed when light is scattered in a transparent material. When monochromatic or laser light is passed through a transparent gas, liquid, or solid and is observed with the spectroscope, the normal spectral line has associated with it lines of longer and of shorter wavelength, called the Raman spectrum. Such lines, caused by photons losing or gaining energy in elastic collisions with the molecules of the substance, vary with the substance. Thus the Raman effect is applied in spectrographic chemical analysis and in the determination of molecular structure. |
