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dated March 21, 1958: “New View” on crystals

Noted Indian scientist Dr. C.V. Raman, in his address to the Indian Academy of Sciences on March 19, at the Raman Research Institute in Bangalore, proposed a “fundamentally different view” of crystal architecture, citing the case of diamond as an illustration. The new view was that a crystal was composed of two distinct assemblies, one assembly consisting of positively charged heavy particles, namely the atomic nuclei, with the electrons most closely associated with them and the other assembly of the electrons, which were responsible for the chemical linkages holding the atoms together and which could not therefore be regarded as an exclusive possession of any particular atom.

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