C. V. Raman by Dilip Salwi, Rupa*, 95 rupees, ISBN 8171677851 Reviewed by Maggie McDonald
“THERE is only one solution to India’s economic problems and it is science, more science and still more science,” so says Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930 for proving the existence of photons. Dilip Salwi reveals that the equipment for this world-class discovery cost only a few hundred rupees and Raman’s paper in Nature inspired 150 research papers in six months.
One of the Charitavali series on national heroes, Salwi’s biography, C. V. Raman, is a brief round-up of…
