John William Strutt
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 1904for his investigations of the densities of the most important gases and for his discovery of argon in connection with these studies
- Citizenship
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland - Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 11/12/1842
- place of birth
- Maldon, Langford Grove
- date of death
- 6/30/1919
- place of death
- Terling Place, Witham
- Lived
- 76 years
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- educated at
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- University of Cambridge
- academic degree: Doctor
- end time: 1868
- Trinity College
- end time: 1865
- start time: 1861
- Harrow School
- start time: 1856
- Eton College
- University of Cambridge
- position held
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- member of the House of Lords
- start time: 6/14/1873
- end time: 6/30/1919
- president
- end time: 1876
- start time: 1876
- Lord Lieutenant of Essex
- end time: 8/1/1901
- start time: 2/2/1892
- director
- end time: 1884
- start time: 1879
- Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
- start time: 1905
- chancellor
- start time: 1908
- end time: 1919
- President of the Royal Society
- start time: 1905
- end time: 1908
- chairperson
- end time: 1919
- start time: 1919
- member of the House of Lords
- employer
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- University of Cambridge
- end time: 1884
- start time: 1879
- Royal Institution
- start time: 1887
- end time: 1905
- University of Cambridge
- member of
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- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- start time: 8/6/1891
- Royal Society of London
- Academy of Sciences of Turin
- French Academy of Sciences
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- National Academy of Sciences
- Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
- Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
- Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
- Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Russian Academy of Sciences
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- notable work
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- Rayleigh–Bénard convection
- Rayleigh scattering
- Rayleigh wave
- argon
- Rayleigh–Jeans law
- Rayleigh–Ritz method
- Rayleigh number
- Rayleigh–Plesset equation
- Rayleigh–Taylor instability
- Plateau–Rayleigh instability
- The theory of sound
- Rayleigh–Gans approximation
- Rayleigh quotient
- Rayleigh length
- Rayleigh law
- field of work
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- physics
- occupation
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- politician
- mathematician
- physicist
- chemist
- university teacher
- work location
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- Terling Place
- doctoral student
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- Joseph John Thomson
- Jagadish Chandra Bose