When is the National Science Day celebrated to commemorate the contribution of CV Raman?
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
The correct answer is option 2 i.e. 28 February
| National Science Day | National Science Day is celebrated in India on 28 February each year to mark the discovery of the Raman effect by Indian physicist Sir C. V. Raman on 28 February 1928. |
| The Nobel Prize in Physics 1930 was awarded to Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman "for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him." | |
| With his student K. S. Krishnan, he discovered that when light traverses a transparent material, some of the deflected light change wavelength and amplitude. |