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. RAMANIt 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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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
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It is generally believed that it is the students who derive benefit by working under the guidance of a professor.
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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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I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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We need a spirit of victory, a spirit that will carry us to our rightful place under the sun, a spirit which can recognize that we, as inheritors of a proud civilization, are entitled to our rightful place on this planet. If that indomitable spirit were to arise, nothing can hold us from achieving our rightful destiny.
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I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial, governmental or military pressures.
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It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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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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The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
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In reality, the professor benefits equally by his association with gifted students working under him.
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Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
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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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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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We begin to realise that the molecular scattering of light in liquids may possess an astronomical significance, in fact contribute in an important degree to the observed albedo of the earth.
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