Physics PYQ 178 of 288 · Optics

Sir C.V. Raman received Nobel Prize for physics in the year :

  1. A1928
  2. B1930
  3. C1932
  4. D1950

42nd BPSC Prelims 1997

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Correct answer: (b) 1930

Explanation

C. V. Raman received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for the Raman effect, which he discovered on 28 February 1928. He was the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize in science.

India celebrates 28 February as National Science Day.

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