Strutt, Sir. John William b. November 12, 1842 d. June 30, 1919 British Physicist and Scientist. Nobel Prize Winner. Baron Lord Rayleigh, known for being the discoverer of the inert gas Argon, and for being the first to explain, through his Theory of Scattering, because the sky is blue. Graduated at Cambridge, in 1879 he was appointed Professor of Physics at the same University. His research has spaced in different branches of physics. The studies of the phenomenon of capillarity and surface tension, the phenomenon of the scattering of light and the nature...[Read More] (Bio by: Lucy Caldarelli) Terling, All Saints Churchyard, Terling, Essex, England
b. November 12, 1842 d. June 30, 1919