Raman’s work on light scattering led him to his discovery of the Raman effect, which then was seen as a confirmation of Smekal’s prediction that when monochromatic light is scattered by a transparent medium the scattered light will also contain both higher and lower frequencies. In general, Raman, like other Indian scientists, worked in isolation and had to rely largely on his own knowledge and experiments. In Germany, Sommerfeld accepted Raman’s discovery, and Pringsheim repeated Raman’s experiments successfully, which overcame skepticism towards Raman’s results. In the end, Raman was accorded priority for the discovery over the Russians Landsberg and Mandelstam, and a large number of physicists nominated him for the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1930.