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  • Just on the way out, we were shown something really special.

  • This is what Raman used to carry in his overcoat pocket.

  • It's his personal spectroscope.

  • So whenever he saw something interesting,

  • a flower, a rock, whatever.

  • He could look through this and see the spectrum with its colour.

  • This is really special because Raman

  • is most famous for his work on spectroscopy,

  • and here is his personal spectroscope.

  • The thing that he really carried around and valued.

  • It's like Isaac Newton's telescope or something like that.

  • This is as close as one can get

  • to a scientist who's sadly died.

  • Here you can see the tools that he used,

  • not when he was doing big experiments, but when he was relaxing.

  • You can imagine him: 'Look! Nice flower'

  • and then go, looks at it, so we're very privileged.

  • This is something I hope all of you who're watching will remember.

  • So this is the citation,

  • and here is, you can perhaps guess, is the medal.

  • Wow, if I put this near the lamp.

  • Well I wouldn't, I've never tried it.

  • There it goes, it's whizzing around, that's fantastic, that's really good.

  • I've never tried that, that's a first.

  • You did sound a bit alarmed, I was like, 'Oh no, what have I done?'

Just on the way out, we were shown something really special.

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