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There Compton presented his experimental findings, which William Duane argued with his own with evidence that light was a wave. Aston even made personal attack on Born by referring to him as someone "who was rejected by his own country, a renegade and therefore a second-rate scientist unfit to be part of the faculty, much less to be the head of the department of physics."

The Council of IISc constituted a review committee to oversee Raman's conduct in January 1936.

The next year he obtained an M.A. degree. The field of Raman spectroscopy came to be based on this phenomenon, and Ernest Rutherford, President of the Royal Society, referred to it in his presentation of the Hughes Medal to Raman in 1930 as "among the best three or four discoveries in experimental physics in the last decade".

Raman was confident that he would win the Nobel Prize in Physics as well but was disappointed when the Nobel Prize went to Owen Richardson in 1928 and to Louis de Broglie in 1929.

He presented his theory in one his lectures at IISc. Modulators, and switching systems based on this effect have enabled optical communication components based on laser systems.

Other investigations carried out by Raman were experimental and theoretical studies on the diffraction of light by acoustic waves of ultrasonic and hypersonic frequencies published 1934–1942, and those on the effects produced by X-rays on infrared vibrations in crystals exposed to ordinary light.

In 1948, Raman, through studying the spectroscopic behaviour of crystals, approached in a new manner fundamental problems of crystal dynamics.

Other scientists quickly understood the significance of this phenomenon as an analytical and research tool and called it the Raman Effect. In another he shattered to pieces with a hammer his Bharat Ratna medallion, as it was given to him by the Nehru government. It was alongside Lord Rayleigh's paper on the sensitivity of ear to sound, and from which Lord Rayleigh started to communicate with Raman, courteously addressing him as "Professor."

Aware of Raman's capacity, his physics teacher Richard Llewellyn Jones insisted him to continue research in England.

As Raman saw the result, he was astonished why he never observed such phenomenon all those years. He referred to this period as the "golden era" of his life.

Raman's appointment as the Palit Professor was strongly objected to by some members of the Senate of the University of Calcutta, especially foreign members, as Raman had no PhD and had never studied abroad.

He resolved that "How can India Science prosper under the tutelage of an academy which has its own council of 30, 15 of who are Britishers of whom only two or three are fit enough to be its Fellows." On 1 April 1933 he convened a separate meeting of the south Indian scientists.