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John Tyndall (1820–1893) was a British physicist, mountaineer, inventor, and philosopher. Born in County Carlow, he held citizenship in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He was educated at the University of Marburg and worked as an employee of the Royal Institution. His doctoral advisors included Michael Faraday and Robert Bunsen. Tyndall’s fields of work encompassed physics, experimental physics, thermal radiation, and light scattering.
He was a member of the Royal Academy, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society, and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Tyndall received several honors, including the Royal Medal, the Rumford Medal, and the Royal Society Bakerian Medal. He was also recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society. Among his notable works are *Six Lectures On Light Delivered In America In 1872 1873*, *Light And Electricity*, and *Fragments Of Science*. He contributed to *Popular Science*. Tyndall died in Haslemere, Surrey.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 103
Top works
- 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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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- Germany
Discography
- Sonnenlicht1980
- Traumland1981
- Reflexionen1982
- Durch Die Zeiten1983
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3
- Total plays
- 8
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,463x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,565x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,889x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 35,553x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 29,122x
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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.
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