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John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, an Uncommon card
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, was a British physicist and hereditary peer who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1904 for his discovery of argon.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 70
- DEF
- 71
- Power
- 141
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 29,000
Power 141 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh quiz: 3 questions
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Find the missing word
He studied and described ______ surface waves in solids, now known as Rayleigh waves.
Answer
transverse. He studied and described transverse surface waves in solids, now known as Rayleigh waves. From the John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, was a British physicist and hereditary peer who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in ____ for his discovery of argon.
Answer
1900s. John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, was a British physicist and hereditary peer who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1904 for his discovery of argon. From the John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh article on Wikipedia.
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- In 1871, Rayleigh published the first theoretical treatment of the elastic scattering of light by particles much smaller than the light's wavelength, a phenomenon now known as Rayleigh scattering, which notably explains why the sky is blue.
- He studied and described transverse surface waves in solids, now known as Rayleigh waves.
- He contributed extensively to fluid dynamics, with concepts such as the Rayleigh number, Rayleigh flow, the Rayleigh–Taylor instability, and Rayleigh's criterion for the stability of Taylor–Couette flow.
Why it is Uncommon
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