Making India proud.

MAKING INDIA PROUD ! Today is not his birthday but couldn't help sharing this post with you my friends !! Sir C V Raman, FRS and Bharat Ratna was awarded the Nobel prize in physics for research on a type of photon scattering now called Raman effect of light, which incidentally explains the blue colour of sky. We are proud that, to the best of my knowledge, he studied at the university of Calcutta at Presidency college for a certain period of time. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of England. Another colossal figure and Nobel laureate in the field of physics and astrophysics and doing India proud was , Subramanyam Chandrasekhar, who is best known to us for his critical mass limit theory pertaining to stellar evolution or the Chandrasekhar Limit ( 1.44 solar masses) beyond which a star cannot escape gravitational collapse during its last stages and becomes a black hole. However Chandrasekhar's work spanned multiple areas of pure physics, astrophysics, relativistic physics and much more. It is interesting to note here that Chandra Sekhar was Sir C V Raman's nephew and he set sail from India to abroad in a passenger ship way back in 1930 -31 and formulated his theory on stellar critical mass limit while on board for which he was awarded the nobel prize decades later at a ripe old age. However remote and exotic black holes may appear in day to day life it will be prudent to remember that our very existence might be depending on these black holes. Again a purview of the ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLE. Chandrasekhar was a self proclaimed atheist.The famous British physicist, Sir Arthur Eddington had an infamous remark to say ( RUBBISH) when he first came to know about Chandrasekhar's mass limit theory. Poor chap Eddington !!! Chandrasekhar passed away in 1995 at a ripe old age of 85yrs in USA, having seen a supernova and possibly a black hole creation in the constellation Cassiopeia in 1987, a spectacular galactic demonstration and proof of his Nobel prize winning theory!!! To the best of my knowledge Sir C. V. Raman stayed at my mother's ancestral home in Kalighat, Calcutta. -- Dr. Bibhash Chakravorty.