Scientific Papers

By: John William Strutt

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Paperback | 20 July 2009

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This final volume of papers by Lord Rayleigh covers the period from 1911 to his death in 1919. The first of the Solvay Conferences in 1911 played a key role in the foundation of quantum theory. Although invited, Rayleigh did not attend. His principal achievements lay in development and consolidation across classical physics, in which he continued to conduct research. In a 1917 paper, he used electromagnetic theory to derive a formula for expressing the reflection properties from a regularly stratified medium. In 1919, he investigated the basis for the natural phenomenon of the stunning iridescent colours of birds and insects. Rayleigh continued his longstanding participation in the Society for Psychical Research, which had been founded in 1882 for the study of `debatable phenomena'. One of his last publications, also from 1919, was his presidential address to that society; this considers a number of highly unorthodox views and practices. He concludes by asserting the importance to scientists of maintaining open minds in the pursuit of truth.

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