Author:John Tyndall

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John Tyndall (1820–1893)

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FRS, British physicist.

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This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, and the list on this page is complete to 1901.
Articles written by this author are designated in the DNB by the initials "J. T-l"

John Tyndall

Works

• Faraday as a discoverer (1868)
• Heat as a Mode of Motion
• Forms of Water
• On Radiation (Rede lecture, 1865)

Articles in Popular Science Monthly

• "Action of Dark Radiations", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 1, June 1872
• "Science and Religion", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 2, November 1872
• "Some Observations on Niagara", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 3, June 1873
• "The Glaciers and their Investigators", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 3, October 1873
• "Rendu and his Editors", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 5, August 1874
• "Inaugural Address Before the British Association", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 5, October 1874
• "Crystalline and Molecular Forces", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 6, January 1875
• "Reply to the Critics of the Belfast Address", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 6, February 1875
• "The Atmosphere in Relation to Fog-Signaling I", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 6, March 1875
• "The Atmosphere in Relation to Fog-Signaling II", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 6, April 1875
• "On the Motions of Sound", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 7, August 1875
• "Martineau and Materialism", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 8, December 1875
• "The Controversy on Acoustical Research", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 8, February 1876
• "Lessons in Electricity I", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 8, March 1876
• "Lessons in Electricity II", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 9, May 1876
• "Lessons in Electricity III", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 9, June 1876
• "Lessons in Electricity IV", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 9, July 1876
• "Fermentation and its Bearings on the Phenomena of Disease", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 10, December 1876
• "A Combat with an Infective Atmosphere", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 10, April 1877
• "Spontaneous Generation I", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 12, February 1878
• "Spontaneous Generation II", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 12, March 1878
• "Recent Experiments on Fog-Signals", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 13, July 1878
• "Professor Tyndall Before the English Copyright Commission", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 14, November 1878
• "Virchow and Evolution", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 14, January 1879
• "The Electric Light", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 14, March 1879
• "Goethe's Farbenlehre: Theory of Colors I", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 17, June 1880
• "Goethe's Farbenlehre: Theory of Colors II", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 17, July 1880
• "The Sabbath I", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 18, December 1880
• "The Sabbath II", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 18, January 1881
• "Action of Radiant Heat on Gaseous Matter", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 19, May 1881
• "Sound and Radiant Heat", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 20, March 1882
• "Progress of the Germ Theory of Disease", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 21, August 1882
• "On Radiation", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 23, August 1883
• "On Rainbows", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 24, March 1884
• "My Schools and Schoolmasters", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 26, January 1885
• "Pasteur's Researches in Germ-Life", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 27, May 1885

Contributions to the Dictionary of National Biography

• “Faraday, Michael,” in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885–1900) in 63 vols.

Works about Tyndall

• "John Tyndall", a biographical portrait by John McLure Hamilton from Men I Have Painted (1921).
• “Tyndall, John,” in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• “Tyndall, John” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911
• “Tyndall, John,” The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co., 1914.
• “Tyndall, John,” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.