Thiruvanaikovil residents want street to be named after C.V. Raman

A radical of residents of Ayyan Street successful Thiruvanaikovil has requested State authorities to see renaming the lane successful honour of Nobel laureate and physicist Sir C.V. Raman arsenic the location wherever helium was calved is located connected the street.

The house, with doorway fig 33/35, is simply a operation with asbestos extortion and an robust gate, located adjacent to Sri Jambukeswarar Akilandeswari temple.

“At present, the thoroughfare uses a caste name. Since the Tamil Nadu authorities is successful the process of removing specified names and replacing them to beforehand equality, we suggest that our thoroughfare beryllium named aft Sir C.V. Raman. Not galore radical are alert that the (rental) location of his maternal grandparents, wherever helium was calved connected November 7, 1888, is situated here. Renaming the thoroughfare volition beryllium our mode to honour his publication to the satellite of subject successful Thiruvanaikovil,” V. Jambunathan, a third-generation nonmigratory of the street, who works arsenic a nationalist relations inspector astatine the Postal Department, told The Hindu.

He and chap residents M.S. Natarajan, Ram Umashankar, and R. Nagarajan presented their petition to Ward 5 Councillor S. Muthukumar connected Thursday.

C.V. Raman was the 2nd of 8 children calved to Chandrasekhar Ramanathan Iyer and Parvathi Ammal. He gained acclaim for his enactment successful the tract of airy scattering that was aboriginal called the Raman Effect. The find earned him the Nobel Prize for Physics successful 1930.