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John Tyndall FRS

Photograph at the John Tyndall FRS blue plaque

John Tyndall F.R.S. 1820 - 1893 Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, London. A physicist who conducted research in many branches of science and established the basis of the modern physics and chemistry curricula. In 1842 he was a student at the Preston Institution for the Diffusion of Knowledge, which later became the University of Central Lancashire.

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