M e g a w o n d e r s (G.H.S. Avanavanchery)

C.V RAMAN

Sir.C.V Raman had a keen interest in science even from his boyhood days.For his famous discovery called the RAMAN EFFECT he was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1930.King George knighted him for his contributions to physics.The Government of India awarded him the Bharat Ratna and the Soviet Union honoured him with the International Lenin prize in 1957. Written in a lucid style on a fascinating subject,The Elixir of Life is both scientific and aesthetic.