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A Short Biography of John Tyndall

Author Name:

John Tyndall

Born As:

John Tyndall

Other Names:

Born:

2 Aug 1820

Died:

4 Dec 1893




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Physicist and Author                          
Selected Works:

Nearly all of them are in print and can be bought new:

The Glaciers of the Alps - 1860
Heat as a Mode of Motion - 1863; revised later editions
On Radiation: One Lecture - 1865
Sound: A Course of Eight Lectures - 1867; revised later editions
Faraday as a Discoverer - 1868
Natural Philosophy in Easy Lessons - 1869 - intended for use in secondary schools
Three Scientific Addresses by Prof. John Tyndall - 1870
Notes of a Course of Nine Lectures on Light - 1870
Notes of a Course of Seven Lectures on Electrical Phenomena and Theories - 1870
Researches on Diamagnetism and Magne-crystallic Action - 1870, a compilation of early research reports
Hours of Exercise in the Alps - 1871
Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Lectures, and Reviews - 1871; expanded later editions
The Forms of Water in Clouds and Rivers, Ice and Glaciers - 1872
Contributions to Molecular Physics in the Domain of Radiant Heat - 1872, a compilation of research reports
Six Lectures on Light - 1873
Lessons in Electricity at the Royal Institution - 1876
Essays on the Floating-matter of the Air in relation to Putrefaction and Infection - 1881
New Fragments - 1892

All these books can be freely downloaded at Archive.org.                          
Wife Louisa Hamilton