Rayleigh
John William Strutt [struht], /strʌt/, 3rd Baron, 1842–1919, English physicist: Nobel Prize 1904.
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Argon, ar′gon, n. a constituent element of our atmosphere, discovered in 1894 by Rayleigh and Ramsay.
The news that Rayleigh and Hockley had also been abandoned by the enemy came in shortly afterwards.
The Invasion | William Le QueuxGeorge had also the advantage of knowing Lord Rayleigh at Cambridge, and retained his friendship through his life.
Rustic Sounds | Francis DarwinEggs are also sent to the Rayleigh Dairies in vast quantities.
The Danes in Lancashire and Yorkshire | S. W. PartingtonTo Rayleigh, however, such a procedure was inadmissible, and he sought for an explanation of his results.
British Dictionary definitions for Rayleigh
/ (ˈreɪlɪ) /
Lord, title of John William Strutt, 1842–1919, British physicist. He discovered argon (1894) with Ramsay and made important contributions to the theory of sound, the theory of scattering of radiation, etc. Nobel prize for physics 1904
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Scientific definitions for Rayleigh
[ rā′lē ]
British physicist whose investigation of the densities of gases led to his discovery (with Sir William Ramsay) of the noble gas argon in 1894. For this work he won the 1904 Nobel Prize for physics.
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