Nobel laureates at Indian Institute of Science
- 1930s
Group portrait of Nobel laureates at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Beginning third from left, the individuals depicted in the photograph are identified as follows:
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888-1970), an Indian physicist primarily known for his work in the field of light scattering and recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901-1976), a German theoretical physicist and one of the key pioneers of quantum mechanics; recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Niels Bohr (1885-1962), a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory; recipient of the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Sir Owen Willans Richardson (1879-1959), a British physicist who received the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law.
Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961), an Austrian-Irish physicist who developed a number of fundamental results in quantum theory; recipient of the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Eswaran, V.R.P. “Nobel Laureates at Indian Institute of Science,” 1930–1939. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/b7tfgo9.
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