Papers, 1871-1919

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Papers, 1871-1919

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155003986

Scientific letters addressed to him (ca. 1,100 items), 1871-1919; congratulatory letters addressed to him (200); correspondence (100 items) with Sir W. Ramsay, 1887-1907; calculations and data readings (ca. 100 sheets).

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American Institute of Physics

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Rayleigh, John William Strutt, baron, 1842-1919

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John William Strutt, the Third Baron Rayleigh, an English physicist, was born in Terling, Essex, in 1842. He attended Cambridge University and in 1879 became professor of experimental physics there and director of its Cavendish Laboratory until 1884. He later was on the faculty at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, became chancellor of Cambridge University, and was a founder of the National Physics Laboratory in Teddington, England. Strutt, who with Lord William Ramsey, discovered the first...