NEW DELHI: The discovery for which the late C.V. Raman was given the Nobel Prize was independently made by two Russian scientists a week earlier than Raman, according to Soviet academician I.L. Fabelinski who says the Nobel committee was unjust in awarding the prize only to Raman.

In a report published in the British science journal nature academician Febelinski, who is with the Lebedev physical institute in Moscow, said the so called Raman effect was first noted by G.S. Landsbergis and LI Mandelstam on February 21, 1928, while Raman observed it on February 28.

“The Soviets discovered the same phenomenon independently of Raman, gave it a correct explanation but published their results later than Raman and Krishnan,” he said.

“Justice demanded that the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics should be awarded to Raman, Landsberg, and Mandelstam but regrettably that did not happen,” he said,

According to academician Fabelinski, the Russian scientists reported their discovery in August 1929 at the sixth congress of the association of Russian physicists where 21 foreign scientists were present.

Article extracted from this publication >> April 27, 1990