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1. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910 - 1995) - Biography - MacTutor…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Chandrasekhar/

   22 Sep 2026: the Raman effect, which is a change in the wavelength of light occurring when a beam of light is deflected by molecules. ... S Ramaseshan, S Chandrasekhar and C V Raman - some letters, Current Sci.

2. Mathematics in India - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Mathematics_in_India/

   22 Jun 2026: Sir) C V Raman (1888-1970) spent some years (1933-1947) at this Institute before moving to an institute named after himself. ... In acting to help good scientists who were in some difficulty, they followed the advice of C V Raman.

3. C Radhakrishna Rao, a living legend - The Hindu obituary - MacTutor…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/Rao_Hindu/

   9 Sep 2026: His father, C.D. Naidu, who worked in the police department, attached great importance to the scholastic achievement of his children. ... He won the Chandrasekara Iyer Scholarship, named after C.V. Raman's father, in physics in Intermediate.

4. Edinburgh: 1936-8 and thereafter - Walter Ledermann - Encounters of a …

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Ledermann/chapter-6/

   7 Mar 2023: V. Raman, the Indian Nobel Laureate. Raman asserted that Born's theory of crystals was unsound, and an acrimonious correspondence ensued which was published in the journal Nature. ... I was able to translate them into rigorous mathematical language and

5. sci_hi PDF (182k)

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/SH/chandrasekhar_sh.pdf

   11 Dec 2025: Actually his uncle Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was some kind of a role model for him and Chandra studied at Presidency College, University of Madras. ... V. Raman and the Raman Effect, SciHi Blog • [5] Reshaping India’s Literature –

6. Raghunathan honours - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Raghunathan_honours/

   25 Jun 2026: The Academy was founded in 1934 by Professor C V Raman (Nobel Laureate) and was registered as a Society under the Societies Registration Act of 1860, on 27 April 1934. ... On the same day, the first general meeting of Fellows was held at which C V Raman

7. S S Pillai (1901 - 1950) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Pillai_S_S/

   15 Oct 2026: c. c. c is sufficiently large and gcd. (. a. ,. b. ). =. 1. (a, b) = 1. (a,b)=1, the equation. ... He had never been elected to any academy although a letter has been found written by Sir C V Raman indicating that he would like to propose Pillai's name

8. Walter Ledermann - Times obituary - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/Ledermann_Times/

   7 Mar 2023: T. Whittaker and A. C. Aitken, and got his first teaching experience in a temporary post at Dundee. ... V. Raman on the structure of crystals in Born's favour. In 1938 Ledermann returned to St Andrews as a lecturer, where he stayed untill 1946; he

9. Parthasarathy books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Parthasarathy_books/

   19 Oct 2026: He is grateful to V Rohatgi and K Vijayan who also helped with proofreading. ... A map. L. :. X. X. C. L: X times X rightarrow mathbb{C}.

10. D D Kosambi (1907 - 1966) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Kosambi/

    2 Jan 2026: V Raman in 1935 who also probably nominated him for the Ramanujan Medal of the Madras University in 1934. ... V V Gokhale and D D Kosambi, Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi (31-7-1907 - 29-6-1966), Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute 47 (1/4)