Rayleigh, John William Strutt, Lord
Rayleigh, John William Strutt, Lord (1842–1919) English physicist. His work was chiefly concerned with various forms of wave motion. He received the 1904 Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery (with William Ramsay) of the noble gas argon and for work on gas densities.
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