Kenneth G. Wilson
Nobel prize winning US physicist
John Tyndall
Irish physicist (1820-1893)
John Tyndall was an Irish physicist and chemist. His scientific fame arose in the 1850s from his study of diamagnetism.
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About the John Tyndall
John Tyndall was an Irish physicist and chemist. 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.
Tyndall also published more than a dozen science books which brought state-of-the-art 19th century experimental physics to a wide audience. From 1853 to 1887 he was professor of physics at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in London. He was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society in 1868.
3 Quotes by John Tyndall
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Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.
John TyndallIrish physicist (1820-1893)
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Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.
John TyndallIrish physicist (1820-1893)
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The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world of fact.
John TyndallIrish physicist (1820-1893)