Some people remember February for other days. The 28th February National Science day Do you know why we celebrate National Science day? In 1921 iconic Indian physicist CV Raman was on board a ship and on his way home from London when a question struck him, why is the sea really blue? He wasn't convinced with the notion that the sea was blue because of the colour of the sky, so in March 1928 he published a theory that came to be known as Raman scattering or Raman effect. Raman scattering refers to the change in the wavelength of light that occurs when a light beam is deflected by molecules and this is called as Raman effect and hence every year, India celebrates National Science Day to remember the discovery of the Raman Effect , a discovery that also earned him the Nobel Prize in 1930 in the field of Physics. A breif introduction: Sir Chandrasekhar venkataraman India's second Nobel laureate and the first one to get in the field of science.He convinced Homi Bhabha...