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| | AllRefer.com - Rayleigh, John William Strutt, 3d Baron (Physics, Biography) - Encyclopedia |
 | | Rayleigh, John William Strutt, 3d Baron[rA´lE] Pronunciation Key, 18421919, English physicist. |
 | | He won the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery (with Sir William Ramsay) of argon. |
 | | He is known for his extensive and important research in sound (resonance, vibration, diffraction, hearing) and light (scattering, polarization, optics, color vision); for his determinations of electrical units; and for his investigation of the application of Boyle's law to gases at low pressures. |
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