A physicist on a steamship in 1921 got fed up with the textbook answer for why the ocean is blue. So he reached into his coat pocket, pulled out a small prism, held it up to the water, and proved the textbook wrong. The work that grew out of it won him a Nobel Prize.His name was C.V. Raman. The textbook line, from a famous scientist named Lord Rayleigh, was that the sea looks blue for one boring reason: it's just a mirror reflecting the blue sky. Raman used his prism to strip the sky's reflectio
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A physicist on a steamship in 1921 got fed up with the textbook answer for why the ocean is blue. So he reached into his coat pocket, pulled out a small prism, held it up to the water, and proved the textbook wrong. The work that grew out of it won him a Nobel Prize.His name was C.V. Raman. The textbook line, from a famous scientist named Lord Rayleigh, was that the sea looks blue for one boring reason: it's just a mirror reflecting the blue sky. Raman used his prism to strip the sky's reflectio
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