• Nobel Prize received :
  ''For his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him.''
• Took his B.A. And M.A. Degrees from the Presidency College, Madras.
• Worked in P&T Department as Deputy Accountant General.
• Became the Professor of Physics in Calcutta University in 1917.
• Founded the Indian Journal of Physics and the Indian Academy of Sciences.
• Was awarded with 'Bharat Ratna' in 1954.

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