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Rayleigh

Lord, title of John William Strutt, 1842--1919, British physicist. He discovered argon (1894) with Ramsay and made important contributions to the theory of sound, the theory of scattering of radiation, etc. Nobel prize for physics 1904

rayleigh [′rā·lē]

(optics)

A unit of brightness, used to measure the brightness of the night sky and aurorae, equal to 10¹⁰/4π quanta per square meter per second per steradian.

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rayleigh (redirected from Rayleigh (disambiguation))

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