The Raman Effect

Further reading and acknowledgments

Nobel Lectures (Physics), 1922-1941. New York: Elsevier Publishing Company, 1965, 263-277.

James H. Hibben. The Raman Effect and Its Chemical Applications. New York: Reinhold Publishing Company, 1939.

Kathy Kincade. "Raman Spectroscopy Enhances in vivo Diagnosis." Laser Focus World, July 1998: 83-91.

Jagdish Mehra. "Venkata Raman." In the Dictionary of Scientific Biography; Charles Coulson Gillispie, Ed.; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975, Vol. 11, 264-267.

Sir C. V. Raman. The New Physics (Talks on the Aspects of Science), New York: Philosophical Library, 1951.

S. N. Sen. Prof. C. V. Raman (Scientific Work at Calcutta), Calcutta: Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 1988.

Anthony T. Tu. Raman Spectroscopy in Biology, New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1982.

G. Venkataraman. Journey Into Light, New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 1994.

Internet Resources

Raman Research Institute.
http://www.rri.res.in/ (accessed Dec. 2005)

The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930.
http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1930/index.html (accessed Dec. 2005)

Acknowledgments

These Web pages are based on a booklet originally prepared for the Landmark designation in 1998.

This booklet was written by James J. Bohning, Lehigh University, with the assistance of T. N. Misra and M. Choudhury, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science. It was produced by the Office of Communications, American Chemical Society.

Photographs courtesy of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science and the Nicolet Instrument Corporation.

Design: Designed: MSK Partners, Hunt Valley, Maryland

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