Rayleigh, John William Strutt, Baron, 1842-1919.
On the light from the sky, its polarization and colour, 1870.
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.
Light
Polarization (Light).
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