This man's namesake instability describes how electrostatic repulsion can overcome surface tension to deform a spherical droplet of charged liquid, and his namesake dimensionless number, the product of the Prandtl number and Grashof number, determines whether heat flows primarily through convection or conduction.
This man's namesake instability describes how electrostatic repulsion can overcome surface tension to deform a spherical droplet of charged liquid, and his namesake dimensionless number, the product of the Prandtl number and Grashof number, determines whether heat flows primarily through convection or conduction. An instability named for him and Taylor describes a heavy fluid floating on a light one, and several parameters are known as his namesake criteria, one referring to combustion and the other to the angular resolution of an optical system.  The creator of an incorrect blackbody energy density formula along with James Jeans, for ten points, name this physicist best known for his eponymous scattering which explains why the sky is blue.
This man's namesake instability describes how electrostatic repulsion can overcome surface tension to deform a spherical droplet of charged liquid, and his namesake dimensionless number, the product of the Prandtl number and Grashof number, determines whether heat flows primarily through convection or conduction.
Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh]