John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, British scientist, 1899. Artist: Unknown

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, British scientist, 1899. Artist: Unknown

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John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, British scientist, 1899. Lord Rayleigh (1842-1919) isolated the element Argon, one of the noble (inert) gases, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904. Cartoon from Vanity Fair, London, December 1899, showing him lecturing.

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