National Science Day-February 28

February 28, 2023

To commemorate the announcement of the discovery of the "Raman Effect," the Indian government, led by then-Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, declared February 28 to be National Science Day in 1986. In light of India's G20 presidency, this year's event is being held with the theme "Global Science for Global Wellbeing."
The discovery that earned physicist Sir CV Raman his Nobel Prize in 1930 was the Raman Effect. Raman discovered, in a deceptively straightforward experiment, that a portion of the light scattered by a liquid is of a different colour when a stream of light passes through it. In the first seven years after its announcement, this discovery was the subject of over 700 papers, and the scientific community immediately recognized it as ground- breaking. This day is observed by the Kerala Academy of Pharmacy to foster growth, new discoveries, and experimentation within the Indian scientific community.