1st Baron Rayleigh

GPTKB entity

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gptkbp:awardReceived gptkb:Copley_Medal
gptkb:Davy_Medal
gptkb:Elliott_Cresson_Medal
gptkb:Matteucci_Medal
gptkb:Nobel_Prize_in_Physics
gptkb:Royal_Medal
gptkb:Rumford_Medal
gptkb:Albert_Medal_(Royal_Society_of_Arts)
gptkb:Barnard_Medal
gptkbp:birthDate 1842-11-12
gptkbp:children gptkb:Robert_John_Strutt
gptkbp:deathDate 1919-06-30
gptkbp:discoveredBy gptkb:William_Ramsay
gptkb:argon
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor gptkb:Edward_John_Routh
gptkbp:doctoralStudent gptkb:J._J._Thomson
gptkb:Lord_Rayleigh_(2nd_Baron)
gptkbp:editor gptkb:Philosophical_Magazine
gptkbp:education gptkb:Eton_College
gptkb:Harrow_School
gptkbp:father gptkb:John_James_Strutt
gptkbp:field gptkb:optics
acoustics
fluid dynamics
physics
gptkbp:fullName gptkb:John_William_Strutt
gptkbp:honorificPrefix The Right Honourable
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label 1st Baron Rayleigh
gptkbp:knownFor gptkb:Rayleigh_scattering
gptkb:Rayleigh_criterion
gptkb:Rayleigh_waves
gptkb:Rayleigh-Jeans_law
discovery of argon
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gptkbp:mother gptkb:Clara_La_Touche
gptkbp:nationality British
gptkbp:nobleTitle gptkb:Baronet
gptkbp:nobleTitleNumber 1st
gptkbp:nobleTitlePeerage gptkb:Peerage_of_the_United_Kingdom
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:nobleman
gptkb:physicist
gptkbp:placeOfBirth gptkb:Langford_Grove,_Maldon,_Essex,_England
gptkbp:placeOfDeath gptkb:Witham,_Essex,_England
gptkbp:postNominals gptkb:PRS
gptkb:FRS
gptkb:OM
gptkb:HonFRSE
PC
gptkbp:president gptkb:Royal_Society
gptkbp:publishedWork gptkb:On_the_Density_of_Gases
gptkb:The_Theory_of_Sound
gptkbp:restingPlace gptkb:Terling,_Essex,_England
gptkbp:signature John William Strutt signature.svg
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Evelyn_Balfour
gptkbp:termAsPresidentOfRoyalSociety 1905-1908
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