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1861
Tyndall publishes his first major paper on the absorption of heat by gases. This was also given as the Bakerian Lecture to the Royal Society and known as the founding paper of climate science Hawkins, Ed, et al. “John Tyndall: Founder of Climate Science?” Climate Lab Book, 26 Apr. 2018, https://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/2018/john-tyndall-founder-of-climate-science/. -
1869
Tyndall explains the reason behind the color of the sun at the horizon. The scattering of light by atmospheric particles has been coined the term, "The Tyndall Effect". -
1876
Tyndall developed the process known as Tyndallization. Tyndallization is a process of sterilizing substances by killing heat-resistant endospores. Tyndall used this process in order to disprove spontaneous generation theory. You take the substance and get it to it's boiling point and keep it there for 15 minutes in a pressurized system done once a day, for three days. This allows the remaining endospores to germinate and be killed in the next boiling. -
1893
YouTube In the video by Objectivity above, a brief biography of John Tyndall, his hobbies and his tragic death are mentioned. Tyndall was seventy-three at this time, and on a slew of medications. His wife, Louisa Tyndall administered a spoonful of chloral, mistaking it for magnesium, which ended up killing Tyndall.