Items in various series of The Royal Society, 1870-1908.

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Items in various series of The Royal Society, 1870-1908.

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Materials by or relating to J. W. Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, are in the following series: Referees Reports: 38 reports by Lord Rayleigh on papers by other scientists. 12 reports on papers by Lord Rayleigh. Miscellaneous Correspondence: 14 letters. Manuscripts (General): 3 letters to Arthur Schuster (Schuster Correspondence), 1 letter to T. E. Thorpe (Thorpe Letters). Council Documents: 4 items. Miscellaneous Manuscripts: 3 items. Topic: physics, electro-magnetism.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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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...

Rayleigh, Robert John Strutt, baron, 1875-1947

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Physicist (atmospheric optics). On the physics faculty at Imperial College, London (1908-1919). Died 1947. From the description of Papers, 1904-1947. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79894807 From the description of Typescript notes found interleaved in his personal copy of the 1924 edition of his biography of his father "Life of Lord Rayleigh," and abstracts of some of RJS's scientific writings, [ca. 1945]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82028130 Physicist (atmospher...

Schuster, Arthur, Sir, 1851-1934

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Physicist. Fellow of the Royal Society. From the description of Papers, 1875-1911. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81640450 Educated at Genera, Owens College, Manchester, Heidelberg. Ph. D. Heidelberg. He was professor of Physics in the University of Manchester 1888-1907. F. R. S. 1879. Secretary of Royal Society 1912-1919. Foreign Secretary of Royal Society 1920-1924. Royal Medal 1893. Rumford Medal 1926. President of British Association 1915. Copley Medallist R. S. 1931. ...