John William Strutt
1842-1919
English physicist who inherited the title of Baron Rayleigh at age 31 and is almost always referred to as Lord Rayleigh in scientific works. Despite appreciable wealth an...
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While born into a wealthy, titled family, Rayleigh did not indulge in the hedonistic lifestyle of England's landed gentry. In fact, many of his friends and relatives disapproved of his scientific purs...
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John William Strutt, who held the title Lord Rayleigh, received almost every honor available to a British scientist, including the Nobel Prize in physics in 1904. Lord Rayleigh never claimed that his ...
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In 1873 John William Strutt's father, the second Baron Rayleigh, died and Strutt succeeded to that title. He is, therefore, almost universally referred to in the scientific literature as Lord Rayleigh...
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The English physicist John William Strutt, 3d Baron Rayleigh (1842-1919), was one of the last of the great individual classical physicists whose interests spanned all disciplines.John William Strutt w...
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John William Strutt
John William (Lord Rayleigh) Strutt
John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh
John William Strutt
Rayleigh, 3d Baron