National Science Day 2026:
Indian Space Research Organisation Chairperson V. Narayanan will visit Shivamogga to take part in the National Science Day programme, and release a biography of former ISRO scientist B.N. Suresh.
- It is celebrated every year on February 28 to mark the contributions of scientists towards the development of the country.
- It commemorates the discovery of the Raman Effect by the Indian physicist, Dr. Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, on the same day in the year 1928.
- For this discovery, he was also awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930.
- In 1986, the Government of India declared 28 February as National Science Day.
- The first National Science Day was celebrated in 1987, and since then, it is observed every year with a special theme.
- National Science Day 2026 Theme: “Women in Science: Catalysing Viksit Bharat”.
- On this day, schools, colleges, coaching institutes, and research organisations across the country will come together to honour scientists, inspire students, and promote a scientific way of thinking.
- Raman Effect is the change in the wavelength of light that occurs when a light beam is deflected by molecules.
- When a beam of light traverses a dust-free, transparent sample of a chemical compound, a small fraction of the light emerges in directions other than that of the incident (incoming) beam.
