Sir Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan

Born:4 December 1898

Died:14 June 1961

• He  was an Indian physicist.
• He was a co-discoverer of Raman scattering, for which his mentor C. V. Raman was awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics.
• In 1920, he went to work with C.V. Raman at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata (then Calcutta).
• He played a significant role in the discovery of the Raman scattering.
• He was knighted in the 1946 Birthday Honours List and awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 1954.
• He was the first recipient of the prestigious Bhatnagar Award in 1958.
• On 4 January 1947. he was appointed as first director of National Physical Laboratory, India.
• This was one of the earliest national laboratories set up under the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research.