All day long, the great Physicist
and Nobel Laureate,
Chandrasekhara Venkita Raman,
used to work in his laboratory.

His students used to watch him walk
with measured steps
and majestic manner along the path.
In fact, they plotted his frequency
as a function of distance
and came up with a single line:

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Inside his Lab,
he worked on light,
investigating it passing
through various substances like
H₂O, C₂H₅OH, the extract of mistletoe
plucked at midnight with a golden sickle,
and the juice of juniper berries etc,
which were added mainly for the flavour.

After his investigations,
when he plodded home for the night,
his students noted that his
frequency distribution
had become rather disordered:

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The most knowledgeable among them
nodded his head and said:
"That's the Raman effect of Alcohol."

Now they were trying to deduce
the source of the effect.
Theories were advanced about its origin.
One hypothesis was that it was due
to the effect of the various impurities
with which the C₂H₅OH had become
contaminated during manufacture.

So they all set up bunsen burners
under flat bottomed conical flasks
connected to leibig's condensers
and tried to distil a pure product
for the learned professor's investigations.

However, it was found that the effect was
more pronounced when the product was made purer.

Finally, in exasperation, the learned professor
and students formulated the theory
later known as the Raman effect.

The molecules of C₂H₅OH are in constant motion
and this motion interacted with the professors' light
and made his frequency disordered.

Anyway, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for THIS!

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