Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2024

DOI

10.1119/5.0167568

Publication Title

The Physics Teacher

Volume

62

Issue

1

Pages

74

Abstract

[First paragraph] Lord Rayleigh, a.k.a. John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842–1919), was, in my opinion, a quintessential mathematical and experimental physicist and, indeed, a classical applied mathematician of the highest order for his era. Among the many honors he received, the most prestigious was the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physics “for his investigations of the densities of the most important gases and for his discovery of argon in connection with these studies.” He was one of the very few members of so-called British “higher nobility” who won fame as an outstanding scientist.

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Adam, J. (2024). The weighty words of Lord Rayleigh. The Physics Teacher, 62(1), 74. https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0167568

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0000-0001-5537-2889 (Adam)

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