Rt Hon. Lord John William Strutt OM PC PRS
(1842-1919)
3rd Baron Rayleigh (from 1873), Order of Merit recipient (from 1902), Nobel Physics Laureate (from 1904), 39th President of the Royal Society (1905-1908), and Privy Counsellor (from 1905)
Commemorated on 1 plaque
Cavendish Laboratory 1874-1974 Established by the Duke of Devonshire and extended by Lord Rayleigh (1908) and Lord Austin (1940), the Cavendish Laboratory housed the Department of Physics from the time of the first Cavendish Professor, James Clerk Maxwell, until its move to new laboratories in West Cambridge
Free School Lane, Cambridge, United Kingdom where they extended