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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who was Professor of Physics
A
CV Raman
B
APJ Abdul Kalam
C
Amitabh Bhachan
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Raman was chosen by the University of Calcutta to become the Palit Professor of Physics, a position established after the benefactor Sir Taraknath Palit, in 1913.

Detailed explanation-2: -Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was born at Tiruchirappalli in Southern India on November 7th, 1888. His father was a lecturer in mathematics and physics so that from the first he was immersed in an academic atmosphere. He entered Presidency College, Madras, in 1902, and in 1904 passed his B.A.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, was an Indian physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for his work on light scattering and the discovery of a new form of scattering called Raman scattering or the Raman effect. The compositions of solids, liquids, and gases can all benefit from this effect.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sir C.V. Raman with the quartz spectrograph used to measure the wavelengths of the scattered light that became known as the Raman Effect.

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