john tyndall

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john tyndall - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  John Tyndall
      n 1: British physicist (born in Ireland) remembered for his
           experiments on the transparency of gases and the absorption
           of radiant heat by gases and the transmission of sound
           through the atmosphere; he was the first person to explain
           why the daylight sky is blue (1820-1893) [syn: Tyndall,
           John Tyndall]