Title

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, British scientist, 1899. Artist: Unknown

Caption

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, British scientist, 1899. Lord Rayleigh (1842-1919) isolated the element Argon, one of the noble (inert) gases, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904. Cartoon from Vanity Fair, London, December 1899, showing him lecturing.
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1899

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B64_021

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,1Mb (4,8Mb) / 11,0in x 17,7in / 3296 x 5315 (300dpi)

Keywords

England people male job man men discovery country science guy occupation British English color colour bench gas scientist chemistry experiment location century Britain profession lecturing lecturer physics cartoon argon laboratory equipment physicist 19th century 1900s 20th century nineteenth century Nobel Prize noble gas Oxford Science Archive Nobel Prize winner Baron John William Rayleigh caricature lithograph portrait Unknown Rayleigh Baron John William Lord Rayleigh John William Strutt lithograph portrait caricature