University of Calcutta
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The University of Calcutta, informally known as Calcutta University, is a public state research university located in Kolkata, also known as Calcutta, in West Bengal, India. It has 151 affiliated unde
The University of Calcutta in the late nineteenth century, by Francis Frith
Calcutta Medical College in 1910
The University of Calcutta building on College Street
Ashutosh Building at the College Street campus
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
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…of the Royal Society, and six Nobel laureates as of 2025. The Nobel laureates associated with this university are Ronald Ross, Rabindranath Tagore, C. V. Raman, Amartya Sen, and Abhijit Banerjee. The university has the highest number of students who have cleared the National Eligibility Test. The University…
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