Indian physicist C V Raman sailed to Stockholm in 1930 convinced he would win the Nobel Prize in Physics. He did, becoming the first person from India to win a scientific Nobel and the first physicist outside Western Europe or the US to receive the award.
C V Raman's 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics and the Sea Voyage That Sparked a Discovery
Indian physicist C V Raman sailed to Stockholm in 1930 convinced he would win the Nobel Prize in Physics. He did, becoming the first person from India to win a scientific Nobel and the first physicist outside Western Europe or the US to receive the award.
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