Mathematician:John William Strutt

Mathematician
English physicist who won the $1904$ Nobel Prize in Physics with for the discovery of argon.

Discovered the phenomenon now called Rayleigh Scattering, which explains why the sky is blue.

Predicted the existence of Rayleigh waves.

Nationality
English

History

 * Born: 12 November 1842 in Langford Grove, Maldon, Essex, England, UK
 * Died: 30 June 1919 in Terling Place, Witham, Essex, England, UK

Theorems and Definitions

 * Rayleigh-Jeans Law (with )
 * Rayleigh Scattering
 * Rayleigh Wave
 * Rayl (unit of acoustic impedance)
 * Rayleigh Theorem, also known as Beatty's Theorem, for
 * Rayleigh-Lorentz Pendulum (with )
 * Plateau-Rayleigh Instability (with )
 * Rayleigh-Gans Approximation (with )

Publications

 * 1877: The Theory of Sound vol. I
 * 1878: The Theory of Sound vol. II

Notable Quotes

 * Examples ... which might be multiplied ad libitum, show how difficult it often is for an experimenter to interpret his results without the aid or mathematics.
 * -- Quoted in : They Say: What Say They? : Let Them Say

Also known as
John William Strutt, $3$rd Baron Rayleigh is also (perhaps better) known as Lord Rayleigh.