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Events on Tuesday 28 February 1928 1
1928Raman effect discoveredC. V. Raman observes inelastic scattering of lightIn Calcutta, C. V. Raman and K. S. Krishnan found that light scattered by a substance includes wavelengths shifted from the incident light. The discovery earned Raman the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics. India marks the date as National Science Day.