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Incoming links: John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
By John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, credited as Lord Rayleigh. Philosophical Magazine, Series 5, 10(60), 73–78 (August 1880). The manuscript ends June 1880; 28 April 2009 is the publisher online date.
Inspected transcription: www.scribd.com/document/472852365/Rayleigh1880
Cited passages: pp. 73–74, expected intensity; pp. 75–77, planar construction and polar integration; pp. 77–78, unequal component amplitudes. The argument concerns large numbers of components.
William Ramsay 2026-10-18
A chemist who led the chemistry department at University College London from 1887 to 1913. His isolation of argon followed John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh's observation that atmospheric nitrogen had greater density than chemically prepared nitrogen.[ref]
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical-physical-sciences/chemistry/about-us/history-department. History of the Department, Ramsay and the nobel gases: chemistry professorship, headship dates and argon isolation
Portrait of William Ramsay
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