John William Strutt
Physicist, Academic
1842 – 1919
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Who was John William Strutt?
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, OM, PRS was an English physicist who, with William Ramsay, discovered argon, an achievement for which he earned the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904. He also discovered the phenomenon now called Rayleigh scattering, explaining why the sky is blue, and predicted the existence of the surface waves now known as Rayleigh waves. Rayleigh's textbook, The Theory of Sound, is still referred to by acoustic engineers today.
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- Born
- Nov 12, 1842
Maldon - Also known as
- John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
- Lord Rayleigh
- 3rd Baron Rayleigh
- Children
- Nationality
- England
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- University of Cambridge
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- Harrow School
- Employment
- University of Cambridge
- Lived in
- United Kingdom
- Maldon
- Died
- Jun 30, 1919
Witham
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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