February 28 - National Science Day
National Science Day (Rashtriya Vigyan Divas) is celebrated in India on February 28 each year to mark the discovery of the Raman Effect by Indian physicist Sir C V Raman on 28th February 1928.
In 1986, the National Council for Science and Technology Communication (NCSTC) asked the Government of India to designate February 28 as National Science Day. Sir C V Raman worked at Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Pune, West Pimpri, India during 1907 to 1933 , undertaking researches on various topics on Physics, making discovery of the celebrated effect on scattering of light in 1928, which bears his name that brought many accolades including the Nobel Prize in 1930. The American Chemical Society designated the 'Raman Effect' as an International Historic Chemical Landmark in 2013.
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