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'''John William Strutt''', 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Lord Rayleigh, OM (12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919) was an English physicist who, with William Ramsay, discovered argon, an achievement for which he earned the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904. | '''John William Strutt''', 3rd Baron Rayleigh, refered to as '''Lord Rayleigh''', OM (12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919) 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.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Strutt,_3rd_Baron_Rayleigh</ref> | 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.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Strutt,_3rd_Baron_Rayleigh</ref> | ||
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John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, refered to as Lord Rayleigh, OM (12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919) 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.[1]
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