List of things named after Lord Rayleigh

Lord Rayleigh (John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, 12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919) was a British physicist and mathematician who is the source of the following terms:

Science and Mathematics

 * Experiments of Rayleigh and Brace
 * Rayleigh bandwidth
 * Rayleigh beamwidth
 * Rayleigh–Carson reciprocity
 * Rayl, rayl or Rayleigh
 * Rayleigh–Faber–Krahn inequality
 * Rayleigh–Jeans law
 * Rayleigh–Jeans catastrophe
 * Rayleigh–Ritz method
 * Rayleigh–Schrödinger perturbation theory
 * Rayleigh's method of dimensional analysis
 * Rayleigh criterion
 * Rayleigh's criterion (thermoacoustics)
 * Rayleigh differential equation
 * Rayleigh dissipation function
 * Rayleigh distance
 * Rayleigh distribution
 * Rayleigh frequency
 * Rayleigh mixture distribution
 * Rayleigh fading
 * Rayleigh's film
 * Rayleigh flight
 * Rayleigh's formulas
 * Rayleigh fractionation
 * Rayleigh's identity
 * Rayleigh interferometer
 * Rayleigh law
 * Rayleigh–Lorentz pendulum
 * Rayleigh law on low-field magnetization
 * Rayleigh length
 * Rayleigh limit
 * Rayleigh–Gans approximation
 * Rayleigh plot
 * Rayleigh quotient
 * Rayleigh quotient iteration
 * Rayleigh's quotient in vibrations analysis
 * Rayleigh test
 * Rayleigh theorem
 * Rayleigh theorem for eigenvalues
 * Rayleigh scattering
 * Filtered Rayleigh scattering
 * Forced Rayleigh scattering
 * Hyper–Rayleigh scattering
 * Rayleigh roughness criterion
 * Rayleigh sky model
 * Rayleigh–Sommerfeld diffraction theory
 * Rayleigh wave equation
 * Rayleigh waves

Fluid mechanics

 * Rayleigh's criterion
 * Janzen–Rayleigh expansion
 * Plateau–Rayleigh instability
 * Rayleigh–Bénard convection
 * Rayleigh–Plesset equation
 * Rayleigh–Taylor instability
 * Rayleigh's equation (fluid dynamics)
 * Rayleigh–Kuo criterion
 * Rayleigh flow
 * Rayleigh number
 * Rayleigh problem
 * Rayleigh Still

Astronomical objects

 * 22740 Rayleigh
 * Rayleigh -75.6°N, -240.9°W,  a Martian crater
 * Rayleigh (lunar crater)

Others

 * Rayleigh Medal, awarded by the Institute of Acoustics
 * Rayleigh Medal and Prize, awarded by the Institute of Physics