Tyndall, John

TYNDALL, John, LL.D., F.R.S. It is unnecessary in this Dictionary to say more about this eminent natural philosopher and lecturer than that he was born about 1820 at Leighlin Bridge, near Carlow, Ireland, that to a very varied education and experience in his native country and in England he added a course of study under Bunsen at Marburg and Magnus at Berlin; that he succeeded Faraday as Superintendent of the Royal Institution, London, and was President of the...