Professor John Tyndall, Irish natural philosopher Size:L: 75 x 50cm 5 litre super-charged V12 unit

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Professor John Tyndall, Irish natural philosopher Size:L: 75 x 50cm 5 litre super-charged V12 unitProfessor John Tyndall, Irish natural philosopher, c1890. Tyndall (1820 1893) was appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Royal Institution, London in 1854 and became President of British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1874. Some of his most notable work was carried out in the fields of heat radiation and acoustics. A keen mountaineer, he combined the pastime with studies of glacial motion in the Swiss Alps. Towards the end of