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permission of Maiken Naylor, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA,
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Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888-1970) was an Indian physicist and Nobel Prize winner who discovered that light scattered by molecules in solution had some components changed in wavelength and that these changes were characteristic of the target molecules. These Raman spectra can be used to investigate and identify molecular structure. Such a spectrum appears next to Raman's portrait on this Indian stamp