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My favourite Nobel prize: Raman scattering is a universal fingerprint

30 Sep 2019 Anna Demming

With the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics due to be announced on Tuesday 8 October, Physics World journalists pick their favourite Nobel awards from the past. Here Anna Demming argues the case for the 1930 prize for Raman scattering

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Raman spectrum of Benzene showing both Stokes and anti-Stokes lines around the exciting 4358.3 angstrom line. Originally published in Nature in 1928 by Raman and Krishnan. Credit: Nature 1928
You don’t see objects just by shining a light on them – it’s the light they scatter that reall

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Anna Demming is a science journalist based in Bristol, UK
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