IT is now nearly sixty years since the Hon. J. W. Strutt, eldest son of the second Baron Rayleigh, entered Trinity College, Cambridge, to study for the Mathematical Tripos. The Lucasian Professor of ...
On behalf of the Royal Society and of the University of Cambridge it is my privilege to thank the Dean and Chapter of Westminster for permission to erect a memorial to Lord Rayleigh in the Abbey. I ...
The resolution of an optical system (like a telescope or a camera) is limited by the so-called Rayleigh criterion. An international team has broken this limit, showing that it is not a fundamental ...
Lord Rayleigh, distinguished English physicist, son of a former Chancellor of Cambridge University, published a new estimate of the antiquity of the earth, of between two and three billion years, ...
Physicists have observed a phenomenon predicted by Lord Rayleigh in 1882 for the first time. Thomas Leisner and colleagues at Ilmenau Technical University in Germany used high-speed microscopic ...
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