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The trouble is that all the investigators proceeded in exactly the same spirit, the spirit that is of scientific curiosity, and with no possibility of telling whether the issue of their work would prove them to be fiends, or dreamers, or angels.
Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh
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Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh
Born:
August 28, 1875
Died:
December 13, 1947
(aged 72)
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Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh was a British peer and physicist. He discovered "active nitrogen" and was the first to distinguish the glow of the night sky.
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