Rayleigh

American

[rey-lee] / ˈreɪ li /

noun

John William Strutt 3rd Baron, 1842–1919, English physicist: Nobel Prize 1904.

Rayleigh British

/ ˈreɪlɪ /

noun

Lord , title of John William Strutt , 1842–1919, British physicist. He discovered argon (1894) with Ramsay and made important contributions to the theory of sound, the theory of scattering of radiation, etc. Nobel prize for physics 1904

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Rayleigh Scientific

/ rā′lē /

British physicist whose investigation of the densities of gases led to his discovery (with Sir William Ramsay) of the noble gas argon in 1894. For this work he won the 1904 Nobel Prize for physics.

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To model beam misalignment more realistically, they applied Rayleigh and Hoyt distributions.

From Science Daily

Mark Billings, 38, from the FitzWimarc School in Rayleigh, appeared as one of the contenders on Saturday, taking on the might of the lycra-clad muscle men and women.

From BBC

Of those surface waves, Love waves shake from side to side, while Rayleigh waves roll in circles, creating up-and-down motion at the surface.

From Literature

This reddish appearance is the result of a phenomenon called "Rayleigh scattering" which also makes the sky blue and our sunsets red.

From BBC

This is caused by a process known as "Rayleigh scattering", which also makes the sky blue and our sunsets red.

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