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Tyndall, John

Born Aug. 2, 1820, in Leighlin Bridge, Ireland; died Dec. 4, 1893, in Hind Head, Surrey. British physicist. Fellow of the Royal Society of London (1852).

After graduating from the local national school in 1839, Tyndall worked as a topographer and geodesist for military organizations from 1840 to 1843 and as a railway engineer from 1844 to 1847. He graduated from the mechanics’ institute at Preston in 1844. From 1847 to 1848 and from 1851 to 1853 he taught at Queenwood College in Hampshire. Between 1848 and 1851 he studied at the universities of Marburg and Berlin. Appointed a professor at the Royal Institution in London in 1853, he became its superintendent in 1867.

Tyndall’s main works dealt with magnetism, acoustics, the absorption of thermal radiation by gases and vapors, and the scattering of light in media containing suspended particles (see). He also investigated the structure and motion of glaciers in the Alps. Tyndall wrote several popular science books that were translated into many languages.

WORKS

In Russian translation:
Populiarnye lektsii, 2nd ed. St. Petersburg, 1885.
Svet: Shest’ lektsii. St. Petersburg, 1877.
Teplota, rassmatrivaemaia kak rod dvizheniia. St. Petersburg, 1864.
Faradei i ego olkrytiia. St. Petersburg, 1871.
Formy vody v oblakakh i rekakh, vo l’de i lednikakh. Moscow, 1873.
Lektsii ob elektrichestve, 3rd ed. St. Petersburg, 1885.

REFERENCE

Eve, A. S., and C. H. Creasey. Life and Work of John Tyndall. London, 1945.

I. D. ROZHANSKII

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Its founder, former NF chairman John Tyndall, wanted to give the movement a "respectable" face to lever it into mainstream politics.

Why is joining so controversial? by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)

British physicist John Tyndall demonstrated total internal reflection by guiding light in a jet of water flowing from a tank.

The Little Known History of Fiber Optic Telecommunication by Colin Yao / Computers and Internet community

Griffin, 45, of Powys, was arrested along with the BNP's Neo-Nazi founder John Tyndall, who has since died, and activist Mark Collett, after a police investigation into the BBC film The Secret Agent.

Anti-racists pledge: We will keep BNP out of Liverpool by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)

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