When1: 1871
When2: 1894
Who: John William Strutt [Strutt, John William] or Lord Rayleigh [Rayleigh, Lord]
What: physicist
Where: England
Detail: He lived 1842 to 1919, studied traveling waves, studied hydrodynamics {hydrodynamic similarity}, studied frictionless-tube compressible flow with heat transfer {Rayleigh flow} [1885], discovered argon [1894], and described light scattering [1871]. He calculated black-body radiation distribution at low and high frequencies {Rayleigh-Jeans radiation}, with James Jeans [1900], which indicated that all energy goes into higher field frequencies over time {ultraviolet catastrophe}, which is impossible.
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