Lord Rayleigh

In 1918, the theory of a step bearing was firstly discussed by Lord Rayleigh [1], determining the optimum geometry with maximum load capacity per unit width for a given film thickness and bearing length.

Aristotelian ideas about the origin of red involved the passing of light through smoke and, in the nineteenth century, Lord Rayleigh provided a mathematical description of how light was scattered by air-borne particles.

In 1896, Lord Rayleigh [11] noticed that humans are able to use the phenomenon of interaural time difference (ITD) in pure-tone localization (Figure 1a).

This was followed by Sir William Ramsay of London University in 1904 in "chemistry" for discovery of the inert gaseous elements and Lord Rayleigh of the Royal Institution of Great Britain in 1904 in "physics" for gas densities and the discovery of argon.

English physicist Lord Rayleigh proposed in 1877 that water molecules bouncing back and forth in the spout produce the whistle, but new experiments show that little swirls of steam are responsible.

Later, in 1916, Lord Rayleigh proposed his theory of a feedback coupling resting on buoyancy: a fluid particle hotter than its environment encounters ever colder fluid as it rises, which leads to the instability.

Also, the Lord Rayleigh estimate for its static permittivity is introduced.

Richardson was inspired by a theory described by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Lord Rayleigh in a paper written in 1883.

In 1881, Lord Rayleigh introduced anomaloscope for scientific analysis of color defects (5).

After the wire center begins to melt, capillary action dominates; Lord Rayleigh determined for an infinite fluid column that the maximum capillary force instability occurs at a length of 4.51d.