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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:00:17 +1100
From: bill.rachinger@sci.monash.edu.au
To: phys-l@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu
Subject: [Phys-l] A guy called Rayleigh
John Denker wrote:
There is a book called _The Theory of Sound_ by some guy named
Rayleigh.
This guy, /inter alia/, scored a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1904. His name was John William Strutt (third Baron Rayleigh). A brief biography is to be found at http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1904/strutt-bio.html
but googling Lord Rayleigh will score some 226K hits.
Bill Rachinger
School of Physics
Monash University
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