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John Tyndall - Birth
John Tyndall was born on August 2, 1820 -
John Tyndall - Professor of Natural Philosophy (1853)
In 1848 to 1850, John Tyndall changed his career field from an engineer to a scientist. He attended the University of Marburg, Germany. He had a hard time finding work after he received his Ph. D, But a couple of years later he became a professor of natural Philosophy at the Royal Institution in London France. -
John Tyndall - Greenhouse gas
In 1859, John Tyndall started doing experiments on different types of gasses and the affect it has on temperature. He discovered that gasses such as oxygen and nitrogen are transparent but the gasses given of by burnt coal and CO2 were completely different. This gas was not transparent, which in turn directly related to the planets heat balance. This was later called greenhouse gas. -
John Tyndall - Heat by Water Vapor
This is when John Tyndall wrote his first major paper on the absorption of heat by gases. He went on to explain that the absorption and radiation of heat by water vapor could be why there is changes in air temperatures in the morning and in the evening. Also that it could be why there is differences in the top of a mountain compared to the bottom of one. -
John Tyndall - Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion
In 1863, John Tyndall wrote a book called Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion. Tyndall went on to describe that after many experiments all mechanical force when expanded produces heat. This in return explained how he came to the conclusion that heat has molecular motion. -
John Tyndall - Tyndall Effect
This is when John Tyndall discovered that light scattered off of atmospheric particles. A very good example of this is when you light a torch on a foggy night, the path becomes visible as the light reflects off the water droplets in the fog causing the light to scatter. -
John Tyndall - Death
John Tyndall died on December 4, 1893.