 Although the inelastic scattering of light was predicted by Adolf Smekal in 1923, it was not observed in practice until 1928.The Raman effect was named after one of its discoverers, the Indian scientist C. V. Raman, who observed the effect in organic liquids in 1928 together with K. S. Krishnan, and independently by Grigory Landsberg and Leonid Mandelstam in inorganic crystals.Raman won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for this discovery.