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Chemical & Engineering News · 1999
Sir Chandrasekhara Ventaka Raman, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930, once said that outstanding investigators "are claimed as nationals by one or another of many different countries. Yet in the truest sense, they belong to the whole world." The memory of Raman was honored in Calcutta, India, last month by both the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS) and the American Chemical Society. His discovery of the Raman effect—the scattering of light by molecules in a liquid—was designated an International Chemical Landmark. On hand for a ceremony and unveiling of a plaque at IACS were ACS President Ed Wasserman; former ACS president Ned D. Heindel; and Jai P. Mittal, president of the Indian Chemical Society (ICS). ACS's goal is "to ensure that the landmarks in the history of chemistry and chemical engineering are commemorated and that their physical remains are marked, and, when possible, preserved for future generations," noted Heindel, ...