Hughes Medal
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The Hughes Medal is awarded by the Royal Society "in recognition of an original discovery in the physical sciences, particularly electricity and magnetism or their applications." The medal is named af
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J.J Thomson
Hittorf portrait from Festschrift 1904
Joseph Wilson Swan
C. V. Raman
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Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was an Indian 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
Hughes Medal
…de Broglie "For his work on X-ray spectra." 1929 Hans Geiger "For his invention and development of methods of counting alpha and beta particles." 1930 Venkata Raman "For his studies on the abnormal scattering of light." 1931 William Lawrence Bragg "For his pioneer work on the elucidation of crystal structure by…
Raman in 1930
Raman at the 1930 Nobel Prize Award Ceremony with other winners, from left C. V. Raman (physics), Hans Fischer (chemistry), Karl Landsteiner (medicine) and Sinclair Lewis (literature)
Title page to Raman's Molecular Diffraction of Light (1922)
Bust of Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman in the garden of Birla Industrial & Technological Museum