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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 12 November 1842
- Died
- 30 June 1919
- Place of birth
- Maldon, Langford Grove
- Place of death
- Witham, Terling Place
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- John
- Family name
- Strutt
- Mother
- Clara Vicars
- Child
- Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh, Arthur Strutt, Julian Balfour Strutt, William Maitland Strutt
- Field of work
- physics
- Occupation
- physicist, politician, university teacher, mathematician, chemist
- Position held
- Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, President of the Royal Society, member of the House of Lords, Lord Lieutenant of Essex, chancellor, president, chairperson, director
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Religion
- Anglicanism
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics, Fellow of the Royal Society, Copley Medal, Faraday Lectureship Prize, Leconte Prize, Royal Medal, Elliott Cresson Medal, De Morgan Medal, Rumford Medal, Matteucci Medal, Albert Medal, Royal Society Bakerian Medal
- academic degree
- Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts
- birth name
- John William Strutt
- contributed to creative work
- Popular Science
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, BEIC Digital Library, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Dictionary of National Biography, third supplement, Physicists: Biographical Dictionary
- doctoral advisor
- Edward Routh, Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, James Clerk Maxwell
- doctoral student
- Joseph John Thomson, Jagadish Chandra Bose
- educated at
- Harrow School, Trinity College, Eton College, University of Cambridge
- employer
- University of Cambridge, Royal Institution
- interested in
- physics
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- member of
- Royal Society, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, French Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL, National Academy of Sciences
- name in native language
- John Strutt
- noble title
- Baron Rayleigh
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics
- notable work
- argon, Rayleigh scattering, Rayleigh–Bénard convection, Rayleigh wave, The theory of sound, Rayleigh number, Rayleigh–Jeans law, Rayleigh quotient, Rayleigh–Taylor instability, Plateau–Rayleigh instability, Rayleigh law, Rayleigh length
- partner in business or sport
- Henry Martyn Taylor
- place of burial
- Terling (All Saints) Churchyard
- relative
- Arthur Balfour
- residence
- Terling Place
- topic's main category
- Category:John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
- work location
- Terling Place
- writing language
- English
Connected on Wikidata
Author of
Subject of
- 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Rayleigh, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron
- Strutt, John William, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
- Strutt, John William
- Argon
- John William Strutt (1842–1919), 3rd Baron Rayleigh
- John William Strutt (1842–1919), 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Fellow, Experimental and Mathematical Physicist
- John William Strutt (1842–1919), 3rd Baron Rayleigh (copy after Philip Burne Jones)
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