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 | | The polarization of the Raman scattered light with respect to the crystal and the polarization of the laser light can be used to find the orientation of the crystal, if the crystal structure (specifically, its point group) is known. |
 | | Inelastic scattering of light is sometimes called the Raman effect, named after one of its discoverers, the Indian scientist Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1928, together with K. Krishnan and independently by Grigory Landsberg and Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam). |
 | | Raman won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for this discovery, accomplished using filtered sunlight as a monochromatic source of photons, a colored filter as a monochromator, and a human eye as detector. |
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