Author: Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Alternate names: Raman, Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata; Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman; Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman; Chandrasekhara Venkataraman; C. V. Raman; Raman, Chandrasekhara Venkata Sir
Title: Sir
Born: 7 November 1888
Died: 21 November 1970
Bio: Indian quantum physicist, known for the Raman effect: (Why is the sky blue?) Winner of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics. Fellow of the Royal Society.

Distinguish from his nephew Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, also a distinguished physicist, who discovered the Chandrasekhar limit on the minimum stellar masses which may form black holes.