The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.
C. V. RAMANAnd it was this belief which led to the subject becoming the main theme of our activities at Calcutta from that time onwards.
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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage.
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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
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It was the late Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar who, by founding the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, made it possible for the scientific aspirations of my early years to continue burning brightly.
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And it was this belief which led to the subject becoming the main theme of our activities at Calcutta from that time onwards.
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The sunlit face of the earth would appear to shine by the light diffused back into space from the land and water-covered areas.
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It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.
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Towards the end of February 1928, I took the decision of using brilliant monochromatic illumination obtained by the aid of the commercially available mercury arcs sealed in quartz tubes.
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When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water.
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It was my great good fortune, while I was still a student at college, to have possessed a copy of an English translation of his great work.
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I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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It will soon be 25 years from the date of publication of my first research work. That the scientific aspirations kindled by that early work did not suffer extinction has been due entirely to the opportunities provided for me by the great city of Calcutta.
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A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea.
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It seemed, indeed, that the study of light-scattering might carry one into the deepest problems of physics and chemistry.
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This was the reason why I decided, as far as possible, not to accept money from the government.
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