"This elegant generalization is mathematically very appealing; but physics means facing facts. You should take up case by case."
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Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan
Padma Bhushan Sir Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan FRS (December 4, 1898 – June 14, 1961) was an Indian physicist. He was a co-discover of Raman scattering, for which his mentor C. V. Raman was awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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