In 1904, Lord Rayleigh won the Physics Noble Prize.
Date of Birth: 12 November 1842.
Died: 30 June 1919.
Nationality: British.
Education: Trinity College, Cambridge Eton College.
Known as: Discovery of argon, Plateau–Rayleigh instability, Rayleigh waves, Rayleigh scattering, Rayleigh criterion, Rayleigh distance, Rayleigh–Bénard convection, Rayleigh–Brace experiments, Rayleigh–Faber–Krahn inequality, Rayleigh’s criterion, Rayleigh’s criterion, Rayleigh distribution, Rayleigh interferometer, Rayleigh’s method of dimensional analysis, Rayleigh-Ritz method, Rayleigh quotient, Rayleigh–Lorentz pendulum, Rayleigh–Gans approximation, Rayleigh dissipation function, Rayleigh fading, Rayleigh flow, Rayleigh’s formulas, Rayleigh fractionation, Rayleigh law, Rayleigh number, Rayleigh problem, Rayleigh–Carson reciprocity, Rayleigh–Plesset equation, Rayleigh–Schrödinger perturbation theory, Rayleigh Still Rayleigh–Taylor instability, Rayleigh-Jeans catastrophe, Rayleigh-Jeans law, Rayleigh’s equation, Janzen–Rayleigh expansion, Rayleigh limit, Rayleigh test, Rayleigh theorem for eigenvalues, Rayleigh’s energy theorem, Rayleigh’s theorem, Acoustic streaming Anti-reflective coating, Bending theory End correction, Drag equation, Dynamic soaring, Duplex theory, Optical theorem, Photonic crystal, Principle of similitude, Self-oscillation, Ultrasound scattering, Sound theory, Waveguide, Whispering-gallery wave
Awards: Smith’s Prize(1865), Royal Medal(1882), De Morgan Medal(1890), Matteucci Medal(1894), Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science(1895), Faraday Lectureship Prize(1895) Copley Medal(1899), Nobel Prize in Physics(1904), Albert Medal(1905), Elliott Cresson Medal(1913) Rumford Medal(1914).
Fields: Physics, optics, acoustics.
