Remembering CV Raman: 5 Facts About The Nobel Laureate

One of India's most revered scientists and the Nobel prize-winning Physicist, Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, more popularly known as C V Raman, was born in 1888 on this day.

At the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science in Calcutta, Raman did a ground-breaking experiment that eventually earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics on February 28 in 1928. Here are 5 facts you should know about this great man.