Human Accomplishment: John William Strutt

an English mathematician who made extensive contributions to science

The Nobel Prize in physics (1904)

"for his investigations of the densities of the most important gases and for his discovery of argon in connection with these studies"

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Born

12 November 1842 Langford Grove, Maldon, Essex, England

Died

30 June 1919 (aged 76) Terling Place, Witham, Essex, England

Nationality

English

Known for

List Discovery of argon Plateau–Rayleigh instability Rayleigh waves Rayleigh scattering Rayleigh criterion Rayleigh distance Rayleigh–Bénard convection Rayleigh–Brace experiments Rayleigh–Faber–Krahn inequality

Fields

Physics, optics, acoustics

Alma mater

Trinity College, Cambridge Eton College

Awards

1865 Smith's Prize 1882 Royal Medal 1890 De Morgan Medal 1894 Matteucci Medal 1895 Faraday Lectureship Prize 1899 Copley Medal 1904 Nobel Prize in Physics 1905 Albert Medal 1913 Elliott Cresson Medal 1914

Institutions

Trinity College, Cambridge

Academic advisors

Edward John Routh Sir George Stokes Lord Kelvin

adultbasic

Britain

era

1800+

Notable students

J. J. Thomson Jagadish Chandra Bose Sir William Ramsay

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