Strutt, John William

Strutt, John William. Life of John William Strutt, Third Baron Raleigh. The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison. 1968. 

Strutt, John William (Lord Rayleigh) was born 12 November 1842 and died 30 June 1919. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1904 for discovering Ar and succeeded James Clerk Maxwell as the Cavendish Professor in Cambridge. 

Strutt was the fourth Baron Rayleigh, son of John William Strutt, the third Baron Rayleigh, with whom Ramsay had collaborated on the discovery of argon. He, like Thomson, ran independent experiments that undermined Ramsay, Collie, and Patterson s results ... 

Rayleigh scattering is named after its discoverer, John William Strutt (1842-1919), third Baron Rayleigh, an English physicist. He also did important work on acoustics and black-body radiation... 

Rayleigh,1902. Wave theory of light. In Scientific Papers by John William Strutt, Baron Rayleigh, vol. 3. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 47-189... 

Argon Ar 1894 (London and Bristol, England) John William Strutt,aka Lord Rayleigh (British) and Sir William Ramsay (Scottish) 267... 

John William Strutt, the third Lord Rayleigh, was born at Terling on November 12,1842. His ability for clear thinking and self-expression was evident in his student days, and when he was Senior Wrangler in the Tripos in 1865, one of his examiners remarked, Strutt s papers were so good that they could have been sent straight to press without revision (41). 

John William Strutt, the Third Lord Rayleigh, 1842-1919. 

Birth of John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, at Terling, England. 

Helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon and the radioactive element radon make up a most unusual group of non-metals, called the noble gases. They were all discovered after Mendeleev had published his periodic table. They were discovered between 1894 and 1900, mainly through the work of the British scientists Sir William Ramsay (Figure 9.16a) and Lord John William Strutt Rayleigh (Figure 9.16b). 

William Ramsay and Lord Rayleigh (John William Strutt) isolated the noble gases. 

Argon was discovered in 1894 by English chemist John William Strutt, most commonly known as Lord Rayleigh (1842-1919), and Scottish chemist William Ramsay (1852-1916). It was the first of the noble gases to be isolated. 

John William Strutt, Third Baron of Rayleigh (1842-1919) set up his own physical laboratory at his family seat, Terling Place in Essex, England. In 430 scientific publications he dealt with problems from all areas of classical physics, in particular acoustics, for which he wrote his famous work, The Theory of Sound (1877/78). Together with W. Ramsey he discovered the element Argon (1892-95), for which he was awarded the Nobel prize for Physics in 1904. The chemist W. Ramsey was awarded the Nobel prize for Chemistry in the same year. 

The principal isotope of argon is °Ar (99.6% abundance) it has two other stable isotopes, Ar (0.3%) and Ar (0.1%). Argon-40 is formed by jS-decay of the long-lived potassium isotope see also Noble Gases Ramsay, William Strutt, John. 

In 1962 the first chemical noble gas compound, formulated as XePtFg, was synthesized by Neil Bartlett. This result spurred intense research activity and led to the discovery of numerous xenon and krypton compounds. In 2000 the formation of the first argon compound, argon fluorohydride (HArF), was reported by Leonid Khriachtchev and colleagues, see also Argon Cavendish, Henry Helium Krypton Neon Ramsay, William Ruthereord, Ernest Soddy, Frederick Strutt, John Xenon. 

John William Strutt was born at Langford Grove in Essex, England, and was the first child of John James Strutt, the second Baron Rayleigh. In 1861 Strutt ventured to Cambridge University where he studied at Trinity College, the... 

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