Nobel Prize in Physics 1904
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Lord Rayleigh (John William Strutt)
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1904 was awarded to Lord Rayleigh (John William Strutt) "for his investigations of the densities of the most important gases and for his discovery of argon in connection with these studies"
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