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John Tyndall was an Irish physicist who lived from 1820 to 1893 and made important contributions to understanding light, heat, and gases. His work helped advance scientific knowledge in the 19th century and influenced how we understand physical phenomena in the natural world.
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- Six Lectures On Light Delivered In America In 1872 1873
- Light And Electricity
- Fragments Of Science Vol II
- Fragments Of Science Vol I
- Fragments of Science Volume 1
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- Group
- Origin
- Germany
Discography
- Sonnenlicht1980
- Traumland1981
- Reflexionen1982
- Durch Die Zeiten1983
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- Total plays
- 8
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Quotes
- “Knowledge once gained casts a faint light beyond its own immediate boundaries.”
- “The experimental researches of Faraday are so voluminous, their descriptions are so detailed, and their wealth of illustration is so great, as to render it a heavy labour to master them. The multiplication of proofs, necessary and interesting when the new truths had to be established, are however less needful now when these truths have become household words in science.”
- “Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.”
- “The mind of man may be compared to a musical instrument with a certain range of notes, beyond which in both directions we have an infinitude of silence.”
- “The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proved to have their counterparts in the world of fact.”
- “It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink facts because they are not to our taste.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1820-08-02 ) 2 August 1820, Leighlinbridge , County Carlow , Ireland
- Died
- 4 December 1893 (1893-12-04) (aged 73), Haslemere , Surrey , England
- Alma mater
- University of Marburg
- Known for
- Researching the greenhouse effect (1859) Coining the term calorescence (1864) Inventing capnography (1864) Tyndall's bar breaker (1867) Tyndall effect (1869) Discovering thermophoresis (1870) Improving the respirator (1871)
- Spouse
- Louisa Charlotte Hamilton ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1876 )
- Awards
- FRS (1852) Royal Medal (1853) Bakerian Medal (1855, 1861, 1864, 1881) Rumford Medal (1864)
- Fields
- Physics
- Institutions
- Royal Institution (1853–1887)
- Academic advisors
- Robert Bunsen Hermann Knoblauch
- Notable students
- Mihajlo Pupin
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John Tyndall (/ˈtɪndəl/; 2 August 1820 – 4 December 1893) was an Irish physicist. His scientific fame arose in the 1850s from his study of diamagnetism. Later he made discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the physical properties of air, proving the connection between atmospheric CO2 and what is now known as the greenhouse effect in 1859.