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Born 1820
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1839
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Surveyor
John Tyndall was born into a poor irish family. He had just basic education and worked as a surveyor in Ireland and England. From the years of 1839-47, then his ambitions turned to science. Tyndall then saved to study at the University of Marburg, Germany (1848-1850), and received his Ph.D. -
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1853-professor of natural philosophy
1853 Tyndall became a professor at the Royal Institution, London. At this time is when Tyndall became friends with other physicist and chemist. This is when Tyndall begain his experiments in atmospheric physics. -
Tyndall Effect
In 1869 John Tyndall a Irish physicist discovered that a beam of light passing through a colloidal suspension is visible, but cannot be seen when passes through a pure substance. -
Microbiology
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1893 Death of John Tyndall