Laureates

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The Nobel Prize in Physics
1904

Lord Rayleigh
(John William Strutt)
1842 - 1919

Great Britain

Royal Institution of Great Britain
London, Great Britain

"in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him"
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Rayleigh worked vigorously in pioneering elementary laboratory instruction at Cambridge. When he was awarded the Nobel Prize, Rayleigh gave the prize money to Cambridge for an extension to the Cavendish Laboratory.

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