biography
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Rayleigh, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron
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pronunciation:
[raylee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1842–1919)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born near Maldon, Essex, SE England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, and was elected a fellow of Trinity College in 1866. He succeeded his father as third baron in 1873. He became professor of experimental physics at Cambridge (1879–84), professor of natural philosophy at the Royal Institution, London (1888–1905), and president of the Royal Society (1905–8). His work included research on vibratory motion, the theory of sound, and the wave theory of light (Rayleigh scattering). With Sir William Ramsay he was the discoverer of argon (1894). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904, and became Chancellor of Cambridge University in 1908. |
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