Rayleigh

American  

[rey-lee] / ˈreɪ li /

noun

1. John William Strutt 3rd Baron, 1842–1919, English physicist: Nobel Prize 1904.

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Rayleigh British  

/ ˈreɪlɪ /

noun

1. 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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Rayleigh Scientific  

/ rā′lē /

1. 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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Example Sentences

To model beam misalignment more realistically, they applied Rayleigh and Hoyt distributions.

From Science Daily • Feb. 17, 2026

"Our findings, based on Rayleigh and Hoyt framework, are consistent with existing generalized models, while offering new analytical clarity on the role of asymmetry in pointing errors," concludes Prof. Ata.

From Science Daily • Feb. 17, 2026

Conservative MP for Rayleigh and Wickford, Mark Francois, told BBC Essex it was a "big ask".

From BBC • Oct. 29, 2025

Dad Steve, 48, is head of sixth form at The FitzWimarc school in Rayleigh, where he helped me through my own A-levels back in 2010.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2025

The so-called Rayleigh-Jeans law, named after the physicists Lord Rayleigh and Sir James Jeans, worked fairly well.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife