John William Strutt - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	12-November-1842
Place of Birth	Maldon (United Kingdom)
Nationality	United Kingdom
Also know as	3rd Baron Rayleigh, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Lord Rayleigh
Profession	Physicist
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, OM, PRS was an English physicist who, with William Ramsay, discovered argon, an achievement for which he earned the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904. He also discovered the phenomenon now called Rayleigh scattering, explaining why the sky is blue, and predicted the existence of the surface waves now known as Rayleigh waves. Rayleigh's textbook, The Theory of Sound, is still referred to by acoustic engineers today.

Awards by John William Strutt

Check all the awards nominated and won by John William Strutt.

1914

Rumford Medal	(On the ground of his investigations in thermo-dynamics and on radiation.)

1904

Nobel Prize in Physics	(for his investigations of the densities of the most important gases and for his discovery of argon in connection with these studies)

1899

Copley Medal	(In recognition of his contributions to physical science.)

1890

De Morgan Medal

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