John Tyndall
John Tyndall (; 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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Background
- Born in
- County Carlow
- Educated at
- University of Marburg
- Awards
- 🏆 Rumford Medal🏆 Royal Medal🏆 Royal Society Bakerian Medal
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Robert Bunsen🎓 Michael Faraday
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Trending topics shown first"Charles Darwin, the Abraham of scientific men — a searcher as obedient to the command of truth as was the patriarch to the command of God."
"The Sabbath being regarded as a shadow or type of that heavenly repose which the righteous will enjoy when this world has passed away, 'so these six days of creation are so many periods or millenniums…"
"aste in intellect may be as much an incident of growth as waste in nature."
"The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proved to have their counterparts in the world of fact."
"Discussion, therefore, is one of the motive powers of life, and, as such, is not to be deprecated."
"History is the record of a vast experimental investigation—of a search by man after the best conditions of existence."
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1820
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Birth1893
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