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Post by Rishi Tue Oct 08, 2013 11:15 pm

Contemporary scientists and India’s science establishment who, quite often, face the embarrassing question “Why hasn’t India got a Nobel in science after Raman?” have lessons to learn from him. Not just from his immense dedication and scientific genius. But also from the way Raman ‘pushed’ what he thought was a Nobel winning discovery and made sure he had the attention of people who mattered in the Western world. In short, creating a buzz about his work. The film talks at some length about Raman’s concerted quest for the Nobel — how he wrote to industrialist G D Birla asking him to fund a spectrograph in return for a promise to win a Nobel for India, how he sent a paper to Nature via telegram to beat anyone else with a similar idea, how he sought out Nobel Laureates such as Ernest Rutherford and Neils Bohr asking them to nominate him for the Nobel.


http://blogs.nature.com/indigenus/2013/08/what-can-india-learn-from-bose-raman-saha.html

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