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Ray·leigh  (rl), Third Baron. Title of John William Strutt. 1842-1919.

British physicist. He won a 1904 Nobel Prize for investigating the density of gases and for discovering argon with Sir William Ramsay.

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Rayleigh  (rl), Third Baron. Title of John William Strutt 1842-1919.

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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Rayleigh - English physicist who studied the density of gases and discovered argon; made important contributions to acoustic theory (1842-1919) John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, Third Baron Rayleigh