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John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh

1842 - 1919

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John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, (; 12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919) was a British mathematician and physicist who made extensive contributions to science. He spent all of his academic career at the University of Cambridge. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh has received more than 407,831 page views. His biography is available in 84 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 82 in 2019). John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh is the 71st most popular physicist (down from 69th in 2019), the 240th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 246th in 2019) and the 15th most popular British Physicist.

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh is most famous for his contributions to the fields of acoustics and optics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1904 for his discovery of argon.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh ranks 71 out of 717. Before him are Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, Otto Stern, Robert Andrews Millikan, Emil Lenz, Roger Penrose, and William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin. After him are Max von Laue, William Rowan Hamilton, Carl Zeiss, Jean Baptiste Perrin, Lawrence Bragg, and Wilhelm Eduard Weber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh ranks 7. Before him are Abdul Hamid II, William James, Peter Kropotkin, Alfred Marshall, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Jules Massenet. After him are Karl May, Dominic Savio, Josef Breuer, Camille Flammarion, Paul Lafargue, and Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria. Among people deceased in 1919, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh ranks 11. Before him are Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Emil Fischer, Karl Liebknecht, Alfred Werner, Emiliano Zapata, and Gojong of Korea. After him are Andrew Carnegie, Ruggero Leoncavallo, William Crookes, Carl Larsson, Yakov Sverdlov, and Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh ranks 240 out of 7,765. Before him are Peter O'Toole (1932), Lemmy (1945), Roger Penrose (1931), Harold Wilson (1916), Edward Burnett Tylor (1832), and William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824). After him are John Law (1671), Ken Loach (1936), Alexander Selkirk (1676), Clement Attlee (1883), James George Frazer (1854), and David Gilmour (1946).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh ranks 15. Before him are J. J. Thomson (1856), Thomas Young (1773), James Chadwick (1891), Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869), Roger Penrose (1931), and William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824). After him are Owen Willans Richardson (1879), Peter Higgs (1929), William Henry Bragg (1862), Henry Moseley (1887), Edward Victor Appleton (1892), and George Paget Thomson (1892).

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