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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Strutt,_3rd_Baron_Rayleigh
British physicist and mathematician Lord Rayleigh discovered the inert gas argon (Ar) in 1895, which earned him the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physics. His colleague in this research, Sir William Ramsay, won the same year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Born John William Strutt, he became Lord Rayleigh the Third Baron of Terling Place at the death of his father in 1873, and did much of his research in a private laboratory on the family estate. His 1871 Theory of Scattering was the first scientific work to correctly explain why the sky is blue, and his two-volume The Theory of Sound clarified the mechanics of vibration and acoustic wave propagation.
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