The story of C. V. Raman's resignation from the Fellowship of the Royal Society of London

Abstract

In 1924 the first Asian Nobel Laureate in the field of Physics - C. V. Raman (1888-1970) was elected as the fourth Indian for the Fellowship of the Royal Society of London. Raman is the only Indian FRS who resigned from the Fellowship of the Society. The documents regarding this issue were obtained from the archive of the Society. In this paper the results of their analysis are presented