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Biographies of John Tyndall

  • Eve, A.S. & Creasey, C.H. (1945). Life and Work of John Tyndall. London: Macmillan. 430 pages. This is the "official" biography.
  • William T. Jeans wrote a 100-page biography of Professor Tyndall in 1887 (the year Tyndall retired from the Royal Institution). Downloadable
  • Louisa Charlotte Tyndall, his wife, wrote an 8-page biography of John Tyndall that appeared in 1903 as the preface to one of his books. Downloadable . Also Readable online.
  • Edward Frankland, a longtime friend, wrote a 16-page biography of John Tyndall as an obituary in 1894 in a scientific journal. Downloadable
  • D. Thompson (1957). "John Tyndall (1820–1893): A study in vocational enterprise". Journal of Vocational Education & Training 9 (18): 38–48. doi:10.1080/03057875780000061. gives an account of Tyndall's vocational development prior to 1853.
  • Brock, W.H. (1981). John Tyndall, Essays on a Natural Philosopher. Dublin: Royal Dublin Society. 220 pages.
  • Arthur Whitmore Smith, a professor of physics, wrote a 10-page biography of John Tyndall in 1920 in a scientific monthly. Downloadable
  • Anon (1894). "Obituary notices". Journal of the Chemical Society, Transactions 65: 382. doi:10.1039/CT8946500382. http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/pdf/article/1894/ct/ct8946500382.
  • John Walter Gregory, a naturalist, wrote a nine-page obituary of John Tyndall in 1894 in a natural science journal. Downloadable.
  • An early, seven-page profile of John Tyndall appeared in 1864 in Portraits of Men of Eminence in Literature, Science and Art (volume II) .
  • A brief profile of Tyndall, based on information supplied by Tyndall himself, appeared in 1874 in "Scientific worthies, IV.--John Tyndall". Nature 10 (251): 299–302. Bibcode 1874Natur..10..299.. doi:10.1038/010299a0. http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/HistSciTech/HistSciTech-idx?type=article&did=HISTSCITECH.NATURE18740820.HELMH01&id=HistSciTech.Nature18740820&isize=L..
  • Claud Schuster, John Tyndall as a Mountaineer, 56-page essay included in Schuster's book Postscript to Adventure, year 1950 (New Alpine Library: Eyre & Spottiswoode, London).
  • DeYoung, Ursula (2011). A Vision of Modern Science: John Tyndall and the Role of the Scientist in Victorian Culture. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 280. ISBN 0-230-11053-3.

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