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The last day of the 2nd month is celebrated as National Science day across the country… But are you aware of why is it celebrated today? Every year 28th of February is celebrated as National Science day to celebrate the announcement of the “Raman effect.” In 1986, the Government of India designated February 28 as National Science Day, to commemorate the announcement of the discovery of the “Raman effect”. Also Read: Union Finance Minister Presented Economic Survey of 2022-2328th of February was chosen to celebrate the announcement of the discovery of the “Raman Effect” by then Prime Miniter of the country Rajiv Gandhi. The Raman Effect was the discovery which won physicist Sir CV Raman his Nobel Prize in 1930. Conducting a deceptively simple experiment, Raman discovered that when a stream of light passes through a liquid, a fraction of the light scattered by the liquid is of a different colour. This discovery was immediately recognised as groundbreaking in the scientific