LORD RAYLEIGH has completed a very difficult task with great success; he has written a life of his father which has the intimacy which only near relationship could give, combined with a frankness ...

THE second part of Lord Rayleigh's highly instructive work on acoustics contains the mechanics of oscillatory motions in liquids and gases. Atmospheric air is that medium by which by far the ...

Working in close collaboration with our experimental colleagues at University of Milan, we have discovered and mathematically ...

On the wall of the chapel of St Andrew in Westminster Abbey is a white marble memorial to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, physicist. The tablet, with a portrait relief, is by sculptor Francis ...