Every discovery comes with claims of ‘we-did-it-first’ and so did Grigory Landsberg and Leonid Mandelstam of the Moscow State University in 1928. They independently discovered the scatterings. While the Russian scientists too were nominated for the Nobel, they, however, didn’t receive one due to a few factors, including having discovered the phenomenon only in crystals as opposed to all states of matter. Although they made the scattering discovery on 21 February, a week earlier than Raman.
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