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Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics and You - Timeline - Lord Rayleigh (John William Strutt) (822 words) |
 | Lord Rayleigh was a British physicist and mathematician who worked in many disciplines including electromagnetics, physical optics, and sound wave theory. |
| In optics, the Rayleigh Criterion was chosen by Lord Rayleigh to define the limit of resolution of a diffraction-limited optical instrument. |
| Rayleigh observed that the nitrogen attained from the ammonia was lighter than that derived from air. |
| Lord Rayleigh, John William Strutt (866 words) |
| Lord Rayleigh was the cause of a radical new way of instruction of physics experiments at Cambridge, increasing his students from six to seventy. |
| Lord Rayleigh's first researches were mainly mathematical, concerning optics and vibrating systems, but his later work ranged over almost the whole field of physics, covering sound, wave theory, colour vision, electrodynamics, electromagnetism, light scattering, flow of liquids, hydrodynamics, density of gases, viscosity, capillarity, elasticity, and photography. |
| Lord Rayleigh was an excellent instructor and, under his active supervision, a system of practical instruction in experimental physics was devised at Cambridge, developing from a class of five or six students to an advanced school of some seventy experimental physicists. |
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