John William Strutt Rayleigh d Baron (3r)
Rayleigh, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron (1842–1919), English physicist awarded the 1904 Nobel Prize in physics for his measurements of the density of the atmosphere and its component gases, work that led to his isolation (with William Ramsay) of argon.
See also: Atmosphere; Physics.
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