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C1. Answer the following questions and share your repo use with your partner.
1. Who were Raman’s parents?
Answer: Raman’s parents were Chandrasekhar Iyar and Parvathi Ammal.
2. Why was Raman not able to attend school regularly?
Answer: Raman was not able to attend the school regularly because he was often ill and sick.
3. Where did he complete his Intermediate examination?
Answer: He did his Intermediate examination from Hindu College at Vishakapatnam.
4. What subjects did his relatives advise him to take BA?
Answer: His relatives advised him to take History and Economics for B.A. and also social that to give up Science.
5. Why could not Raman go to the United Kingdom for higher studies?
Answer: Raman’s health broke down and hence he could not go to the United Kingdom for higher studies.
C2. Answer the following questions and share your responses with your partner.
1. How long did he work at Calcutta University?
Answer: Raman worked for 15 years as Professor at Calcutta University.
2. What made Raman give up the highly paid post of Special Accountant General?
Answer: Raman was offered the post of Professor at Calcutta University. So he resigned his highly – paid post of special Accountant General and became a Professor.
3. How did the Soviet Union honour him?
Answer: The Soviet Union, in the year 1957, honoured Raman with, the prestigious International Lenin Prize.
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C3. Read the following questions. Before writing the answers discuss your responses / ideas with others in the group.
1. What makes you think that Raman even as boy, had great interest in Science?
Answer: Raman was very much interested in science from his childhood days. He had made the model of dynamo at his young age. During his school days, he borrowed science books from college students and read them. All these incidents make us to think that Raman, even as a boy, had great interest in science.
2. Why did Raman’s relatives ask Raman to take up Arts Subjects? How did Raman react to it?
Answer: When he Joined Presidency College, Madras, for his B.A, his relatives wanted him to give up Science and take history and Economics. But Raman had made up his mind to study science, so he took physics and secured First Rank with number of prizes. After his M.A again his relatives asked him to take up same Arts subjects in Competitive examination in Calcutta. Raman agreed and took the same. He did well with new subjects and got First place in the competitive examination.
3. What was Raman’s First disappointment in life?
Answer: Raman wanted to go to the United Kingdom for higher studies in science after his M.A. At that time again his health broke down and he could not go. This was the first and greatest disappointment in life.
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4. Why was Raman not happy with the post of Deputy Accountant General?
Answer: Raman wanted to become a scientist. That was his life’s ambition. But, circumstances forced him to become Deputy Accountant General. His love for science was so intense that he felt like a fish out of water. Unwillingly he was doing his job. He was waiting for an opportunity to leave the job and become a scientist.
5. How can you say that Raman had not lost interest in science when he was the Deputy Accountant General?
Answer: After becoming Deputy Accountant General, he had contact with scientists and he took interest in science. One day when he saw the banner of science, he got off from the moving train and went to meet the Scientists who had gathered in that building.
When he was in Rangoon, he heard that an institution had bought a piece of modern Scientific apparatus. He hurriedly went to have a look at it. By these two incidents, we can say that he had not lost interest in science.
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