Nobel Prize Winner In Physics

  Nobel Prize Winner In Physics 2020 “This is very exciting news,” said APS President Phil Bucksbaum. “Andrea Ghez and Reinhard Genzel lead competing experimental groups that have been tracking the motion of stars near the center of the Milky Way for more than twenty years, making precision tests of General Relativity and particularly predictions based on Roger Penrose’s work that there could be a black hole at the galactic center. This work has made pioneering use of adaptive optics on the Keck telescope, and it has led to the understanding that supermassive black holes inhabit the centers of many galaxies. I’m also pleased to see the Swedish academy recognize a fourth woman Nobel Laureate.”                         Reinhard Genzel The Nobel Committee cited papers published in APS journals in their announcement, including two papers in Physical Review Letters (PRL), and one in Reviews of Modern Physics. This marks the tent...

  Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman :   7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) was an Indian FC physicist known for his work in the field of light scattering. Using a spectrograph that he developed, he and his student K. S. Krishnan discovered that when light traverses a transparent material, the deflected light changes its wavelength and frequency. This phenomenon, a hitherto unknown type of scattering of light, which they called "modified scattering" was subsequently termed the Raman effect or Raman scattering. Raman received the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery and was the first Asian to receive a Nobel Prize in any branch of science. C. V. Raman was born in Tiruchirappalli in the Madras Presidency of British India (now Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu, India) to Iyer Brahmin parents, Chandrasekhar Ramanathan Iyer and Parvathi Ammal.He was the second of eight siblings. His father was a teacher at a local high school, and earned a modest income. He recalled: "I was ...

  Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman :   7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) was an Indian FC physicist known for his work in the field of light scattering. Using a spectrograph that he developed, he and his student K. S. Krishnan discovered that when light traverses a transparent material, the deflected light changes its wavelength and frequency. This phenomenon, a hitherto unknown type of scattering of light, which they called "modified scattering" was subsequently termed the Raman effect or Raman scattering. Raman received the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery and was the first Asian to receive a Nobel Prize in any branch of science. C. V. Raman was born in Tiruchirappalli in the Madras Presidency of British India (now Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu, India) to Iyer Brahmin parents, Chandrasekhar Ramanathan Iyer and Parvathi Ammal.He was the second of eight siblings. His father was a teacher at a local high school, and earned a modest income. He recalled: "I was ...