THOMSON'S AND RAMAN'S LABORATORY: A COMPARISON

摘要

India's only Nobel Laureate in the field of natural sciences, C. V. Raman is a legendary figure. He received the Physics Nobel Prize in 1930, for his work on light scattering - the discovery now known as Raman effect. It is a popular belief that the Nobel Prize worth discovery costed Raman only a few hundred rupees and he is supposed to have worked under "poor" conditions. In the present communication we compare J.J. Thomson's Cavendish Laboratory with C. V. Raman s Laboratory at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata. Comparison shows that the working condition of Raman was not as poor as is projected by his followers.