Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was an Indian physicist. He was popularly known as C.V Raman. He was born on 7th November 1888 at Thiruchirappalli.
Raman was born to a Tamil Brahmin parents. His father was a physics teacher in a college. His father's name was Chandrasekhara Ramanathan Iyer and his mother was Parvathi Ammal.
He was the dk second of eight siblings. Raman was a brilliant student. Raman passed his matriculation At the age of 11 and after that, his parents send him abroad for higher studies.
In 1902 he joined Presidency College in Madras. After two years he did a degree from the University of Madras and secured gold medals in physics and English.