See Also: Raman, Sir Chandrasekhara(medicine)
Raman, Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata(encyclopedia)
Vater, Abraham(medicine)
Raman(dictionary)
Raman spectrum(medicine)
Raman effect(medicine)
Narayanan, Kocheril Raman(encyclopedia)
spectrum analysis, raman(medicine)
Vater(dictionary)
VATER(health)

Raman, Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata (sh) and Vater, Abraham (medicine)


Raman, Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata (sh)




born Nov. 7, 1888, Trichinopoly, India
died Nov. 21, 1970, Bangalore

Indian physicist influential in the growth of science in India.

He received a Nobel Prize in 1930 for discovering that when light passes through a transparent material, some of the light that emerges at a right angle to the original beam is of Other frequencies (Raman frequencies) characteristic of the material. He contributed to the building up of nearly every Indian research institution in his time, founded a scholarly physics journal and an academy of sciences, and trained hundreds of students.


Vater, Abraham (medicine)


Vater, Abraham
<person> Was a student and follower of Ruysch in Amsterdam. Wrote on a wide range of anatomical subjects between 1707 and 1750. Was Professor of Anatomy and Botany in Wittenburg (1719) and later (1737) Professor of Pathology and Therapeutics in the same University.

Vater's Tubercle - papilla duodeni - papilla of Santorini.

Vater's Ampulla - ampulla of the bile duct.

Lived: 1684-1751. B. Wittenburg, Dec 9th, 1684, d. Wittenburg, Nov 18th, 1751.