John William Strutt, 3d Baron Rayleigh
1842–1919
Experimental and mathematical physicist. BA, Cambridge (Trinity College), 1865; fellow of Trinity, 1866–71. Cavendish Professor of experimental physics, 1879–84. Professor, natural philosophy, Royal Institution of Great Britain, 1887–1905. Nobel prize, physics, 1904. Co-discoverer of the inert element argon. Became third Baron Rayleigh in 1873. FRS 1873.
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Alum. Cantab.
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Bibliography
Alum. Cantab.: Alumni Cantabrigienses. A biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900. Compiled by John Venn and J. A. Venn. 10 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1922–54.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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