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He died on 30 June 1919, at his home in Witham, Essex. [5][12] He was succeeded, as the 4th Lord Rayleigh, by his son Robert John Strutt, another well-known physicist. Lord Rayleigh was buried in the graveyard of All Saints' Church in Terling in Essex.
Lord Rayleigh died on June 30, 1919, at Witham, Essex. From Nobel Lectures, Physics 1901-1921, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1967. This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and first published in the book series Les Prix Nobel.
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Strutt was born in Langford Grove, Essex, the son of John Strutt, Second Baron Rayleigh, and his wife, Clara Elizabeth La Touche. In his early years, he suffered frailty and poor health, which interfered with his regular attendance at Eton and Harrow School. His last four years of pre-college education were spent at a private boarding school in Hig...
Rayleigh held deep religious convictions, and wished to harmonize these with his scientific pursuits. In the 1870s, influenced by fellow physicist William Crookes, he took an interest in psychical phenomena, and attended seances and sittings with those reputed to have psychic powers.He never confirmed his belief in psychic manifestations, however, ...
Considering that he accomplished so much work from a laboratory on his estate, one would be tempted to class Rayleigh as an amateur, along with James Prescott Joule, who as a brewer, performed his experiments at home. It must become apparent, however, that there can be no distinction between amateurs and professionals when it comes to quality of wo...
Royal Medal (1882)Matteucci Medal (1894)Copley Medal (1899)Nobel Prize for Physics (1904)Craters on Mars and the Moonare named in honor of Rayleigh.A type of surface wave is known as a Rayleigh wave.Anderson, John David. 1997. A history of aerodynamics and its impact on flying machines. Cambridge aerospace series, 8. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 108. ISBN 0521454352.Getling, A. V. 1998. "Rayleigh-Bénard convection structures and dynamics." in Advanced series in nonlinear dynamics, v. 11. Singapore: World Scientific. 9810226578.John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh of Terling Place. Born: November 12, 1842, Langford Grove, Maldon, Essex, England. Died: June 30, 1919, Terling Place, Witham, Essex (aged 76) Awards And Honors: Nobel Prize (1904) Copley Medal (1899) Notable Works: “The Theory of Sound” Subjects Of Study: Rayleigh wave. argon. fluid. wave. Rayleigh limit.
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In 1904, with chemist Sir William Ramsay, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for their joint discovery of the gas argon. John was a founder member of the Order of Merit. In 1871 he married Evelyn Balfour and they had three sons, of whom Robert also became a physicist. He died at his home on 30th June 1919. Further reading
John William Strutt (1842-1919), 3rd Baron Rayleigh, was born at Maldon, Essex, on 12 November 1842. He was educated privately and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a Fellow, 1866-1871. He succeeded his father as baron in 1873.
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On the death of his father in 1873, Strutt became the 3d Baron Rayleigh. After the death of James Clerk Maxwell in 1879, Lord Rayleigh served as the second Cavendish professor of physics at Cambridge, from 1880 to 1885.
