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John Tyndall was born on August 2, 1820, at Leighlin Bridge, near Carlow, Ireland, where his father was a constable.
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John Tyndall was born on August 2, 1820, at Leighlin Bridge, near Carlow, Ireland, where his father was a constable.
After a little formal schooling, he gained a practical education by working as a surveyor and engineer.
He entered the University of Marburg, Germany, in 1848 and earned his doctorate 2 years later.
Tyndall was for a time (1844) a railway engineer, and in 1847 a teacher at Queenwood College, Hants.
Thence with much spirit, and in face of many difficulties, he betook himself, with his colleague Edward Frankland, to the university of Marburg (1848 - 1851), where, by intense application, he obtained his doctorate in two years.
Tyndall's first original work in physical science was in his experiments with regard to magnetism and diamagnetic polarity, on which he was chiefly occupied from 1850 to 1855.
While he was still lecturing on natural philosophy at Queenwood College, his magnetic investigations made him known in the higher circles of the scientific world, and through the initiative of Sir F. Sabine, treasurer of the Royal Society, he was elected F. R. S. in June 1852.
In 1850 he had made Faraday's acquaintance, and shortly before the Ipswich meeting of the British Association in 1851 he began a lasting friendship with Т.
H. Huxley. The two young men stood for chairs of physics and natural history respectively, first at Toronto, next at Sydney, but they were in each case unsuccessful.
The more original contributions which Tyndall made to science are dealt with elsewhere, in the articles concerned with the various subjects.
In 1854 after the meeting of the British Association in Liverpool, a memorable visit occurred to the Penrhyn slate quarries, where the question of slaty cleavage arose in his mind, and ultimately led him, with Huxley, to Switzerland to study the phenomena of glaciers.
Here the mountains seized him, and he became a constant visitor and one of the most intrepid and most resolute of explorers; among other feats of climbing he was the first to ascend the Weiss- horn (1861).
The strong, vigorous, healthfulness and enjoyment which permeate the record of his Alpine work are magnificent, and traces of his influence remain in Switzerland to this day.
The problem of the flow of glaciers occupied his attention for years, and his views brought him into acute conflict with others, particularly J. D. Forbes and James Thomson.
In the following May he was chosen professor of natural philosophy at the Royal Institution, a post which exactly suited his striking gifts and made him a colleague of Faraday. His dissertation research interested Michael Faraday, who later brought him to the Royal Institution of London.
In 1867 Tyndall succeeded Faraday as superintendent there. His reverent attachment to Faraday is beautifully manifested in his memorial volume called Faraday as a Discoverer (1868).
He retired in 1887.
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John Tyndall married Louisa Hamilton in the year 1876, when he was 55 years old. The couple had no children.