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John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh Quotes

1842–1919 England

John William Strutt (12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919) was an English physicist who, with William Ramsay, discovered the element 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.

England
Nobel laureates
Physicists

Also known as: John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh

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The work may be hard, and the discipline severe; but the interest never fails, and great is the privilege of achievement.

Address to the British Association in Montreal (1884)

Without encroaching upon grounds appertaining to the theologian and the philosopher, the domain of natural sciences is surely broad enough to satisfy the wildest ambition of its devotees.

Address to the British Association in Montreal (1884)

The only merit of which I personally am conscious was that of having pleased myself by my studies, and any results that may be due to my researches were owing to the fact that it has been a pleasure for me to become a physicist.

On receiving the Order of Merit (1902)

In science by a fiction as remarkable as any to be found in law, what once been published even though it be in the Russian language, is spoken of as known, and it is too often forgotten that the rediscovery in the library may be a more difficult and uncertain process than the first discovery in the laboratory.

Lord Rayleigh (1884)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.