Rayleigh, John William Strutt, Baron, 1842-1919.
Baron John William Strutt Rayleigh papers, 1871-1919.
Scientific letters addressed to him (ca. 1,100 items), 1871-1919; congratulatory letters addressed to him (200); correspondence (100 items) with Sir W. Ramsay, 1887-1907; calculations and data readings (ca. 100 sheets).
Physicist (electricity, kinetic theory, optics). Director of Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University (1879-1884); on the natural philosophy faculty at Royal Institution of Great Britain (1887); Cambridge University chancellor (1908); and a founder of the National Physics Laboratory, Teddington, England.
Calculations. aat
Physicists -- England. lcsh
Ramsay, William, 1852-1916
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