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. While the majority of his work dealt with sound...

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 pursuits. Strutt, better known as Lord Rayleigh, took...

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 methods were original, but he was very versatile in...

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 was born in Maldon, Essex, on Nov. 12, 1842, the...