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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, 1842–1919, 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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 Rayleigh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, (aka Lord Rayleigh) a notable physicist and baron of Rayleigh;
Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh, a notable physicist and baron of Rayleigh;
The rayleigh (unit), a unit of luminous flux named after the second physicist;
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 Science News Online: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Throughout the book are profiles of young people who earned scholarships, recognition, and even wealth for their inventions, including a brake for runaway shopping carts, a spill-proof bowl, and a robot that can aid rescue teams.
Physicist John Bell nevertheless took up the cause of entanglement and prompted other scientists to test the theory in various thought and laboratory experiments.
In 1947, physicist John Stapp used himself as a guinea pig in testing the effects of extreme gravity on the human body, subjecting himself to forces in an airplane that ranged from weightlessness to 10 times the force of Earth's gravity.
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 Jon Grepstad - Pinhole Photography
Sir William Crookes, John Spiller and William de Wiveleslie Abney, all in England, were other early photographers to try the pinhole technique.
Joseph Petzval of Vienna apparently was the first, in 1857, to attempt to find a mathematical formula of the optimal pinhole diameter for the sharpest definition in a pinhole image.
The British Nobel Prize winner Lord Rayleigh (John William Strutt, 1842–1919) worked on pinhole diameter formulas for ten years and published his work in Nature (1891).
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