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Posted by venkata s c s yamarthy on February 28, 2012 at 3:05 PM

The name "Chandra Sekhar" means lord "Shiva" , and am very happy to have this name,Thanks to my parents for naming me after these great scientist both of whom won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 and 1983 respectively coming from the same family tree.

1) Chandra Sekhara Venkata Raman : Was the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930 for the discovery that when light traverses a transparent material, some of the light that is deflected changes in wavelength. This phenomenon is now called Raman scattering and is the result of the Raman effect.

Notable awards:

Knight Bachelor (1929)
Nobel Prize in Physics (1930)
Bharat Ratna (1954)
Lenin Peace Prize (1957)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._V._Raman

Raman's Scattering : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raman_scattering

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2) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar : Was an Indian-American astrophysicist who, with William A. Fowler, won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics for key discoveries that led to the currently accepted theory on the later evolutionary stages of massive stars. Chandrasekhar was the nephew of Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930.

Notable awards:

Nobel Prize in Physics (1983)
Copley Medal (1984)
National Medal of Science (1966)
Padma Vibhushan (1968)

ChandraSekhar Limit : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrasekhar_limit

ChandraSekhar Number: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrasekhar_number

My blog got the much needed flavor of physics now after writing about the works of these great scientists. If we observe keenly two of the nobel prize and copley medal awards that the greatest all time Physics Scientist Albert Einstein got were also been given to Subramanyan ChandraSekhar