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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
John Tyndall
Born: August 2, 1820
Died: December 4, 1893 (aged 73)
Bio: John Tyndall was a prominent 19th-century physicist. His initial scientific fame arose in the 1850s from his study of diamagnetism. Later he made discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the physical properties of air.
Known for:
- Faraday as a Discoverer (1868)
- The Glaciers of the Alps (1860)
- Six Lectures on Light (1873)
- Heat. A Mode of Motion (1868)
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