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he was in Rangoon, he learnt that an institution had bought a piece
of modern scientific apparatus. He hurriedly put on his clothes and
went to have a look at it. Such was the interest he had in science.
5. In 1911, Raman was appointed Special Accountant General for
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post of Professor at Calcutta University, he jumped at that offer
and accepted the post gladly. After working at Calcutta University
for fifteen years, he became the Director of the Indian Institute of
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Science in Bengaluru. The Raman Research Institute was started in
1948. Raman resigned his post at the Indian Institute of Science and
became the Director of the Research Institute. Here he conducted
his research in Physics until his death.

6. Raman was a great scientist. Throughout his life he was intensely
attached to science. For the sake of science, he gave up the
highly paid post of the Special Accountant General and accepted a
Professorship at Calcutta University. He would forget all about food
and rest while he was at work, and his wife had often to tell him that
his breakfast or coffee was getting cold. Like all great scientists,
Raman had a lot of curiosity. Earlier in his life, while on a voyage
to Europe, he saw the wonderful blue of the Mediterranean Sea.
This led to his work on the Laws of Light Scattering in liquids and
it ended in his discovery of the Raman Effect. He was awarded the
Nobel Prize for this in 1930.

7. Raman was a kind man. He helped people when they were in difficulty.
When he was working as the Deputy Accountant General, a villager
went to him with some badly burnt hundred rupee notes. Any other
person, perhaps, would have turned the villager away. But Raman
took pity on the villager, examined the notes himself and allowed
the villager to exchange the burnt notes for new ones. Once, at the
Raman Research Institute, a candidate was not given admission as
he did not do well in his tests. When his travelling allowance was
paid, the candidate found that he had received more. He returned
to the office to pay back the excess amount. When Raman came to
know of this, he liked the candidate’s honesty and admitted him to
the Institute. The candidate was not able to make out why he was
admitted, when he had not done well in his tests. It seems Raman
told the candidate: “I have admitted you to the Institute because of
your character. You are not very good at Physics, but I can teach
you.”

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