This inelastic scattering by molecules was first discovered by Sir C. V. Raman in 1928. He was awarded Nobel Prize for this fundamental work in 1930.
It was predicted by Adolf Smekal in 1923 but named after one of its discoverers in 1928, the Indian scientist Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Raman scattering is the inelastic scattering of a photon – change in photon energy
By nature weak effect (approximately 1 in 107 photons) |