History(from google ■ Lord rayleigh John william Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh OM (12 November 1842-30 June 1919)was an English physicist who, with William Ramsay discovered the element argon, an achievement for which he earned the nobel prize for hysics in 1904. He also discovered the phenomenon now called Rayleigh scattering, explaining why the sky is blue, and predicted the existence of the surface waves now known as Rayleigh waves. In 1910 Lord Rayleigh discovered that an electrical discharge in nitrogen gas produced active nitrogen",an allotrope considered to be monatomic. The whirling cloud of brilliant yellow light"produced by his apparatus reacted with quicksilver to produce explosive mercury nitride 上海海学信息工程学院上海海事大学信息工程学院 History (from google) ◼ Lord Rayleigh ◼ John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh OM (12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919) was an English physicist who, with William Ramsay, discovered the element argon, an achievement for which he earned the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904. He also discovered the phenomenon now called Rayleigh scattering, explaining why the sky is blue, and predicted the existence of the surface waves now known as Rayleigh waves. In 1910 Lord Rayleigh discovered that an electrical discharge in nitrogen gas produced "active nitrogen", an allotrope considered to be monatomic. The "whirling cloud of brilliant yellow light" produced by his apparatus reacted with quicksilver to produce explosive mercury nitride