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Lord Rayleigh

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, was a foundational English physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1904. His work spanned acoustics, optics, and fluid dynamics. He famously explained why the sky is blue through Rayleigh scattering and provided the first rigorous mathematical description of whispering-gallery waves. His multi-volume treatise, The Theory of Sound, remains a primary reference for wave theory.

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