National Cancer Awareness Day is observed on 7 November, the birth anniversary of Marie Curie. The same date is the birth anniversary of Nobel laureate Sir C. V. Raman, born in 1888.
WHAT HAPPENED
India observed National Cancer Awareness Day on 7 November 2026. The day also marked the 138th birth anniversary of physicist C. V. Raman.
KEY FACTS
- Cancer Awareness Day: first observed in 2014; the date honours Marie Curie, who was born on 7 November 1867.
- C. V. Raman: born on 7 November 1888 in Tiruchirappalli; won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for the Raman Effect, discovered in 1928.
- Raman was the first Indian Director of the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.
EXAM ANGLE
National Science Day (28 February) marks Raman's discovery of the Raman Effect. Marie Curie won Nobel Prizes in both Physics (1903) and Chemistry (1911).
SOURCE AND DATE
Observances of 7 November 2026. Added to this collection on 9 November 2026.