Arthur M. Tyndall

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Arthur Mannering Tyndall (born September 18, 1881 in Bristol , † November 1, 1961 ) was a British physicist. He was director of the physics faculty and the Henry Herbert Wills physics laboratory at the University of Bristol .

Tyndall studied from 1899 at the University of Bristol (then University College, the university was founded in 1909) and was there after his bachelor's degree in 1903 Assistant Lecturer. He was mainly concerned with the mobility of ions in gases and in 1919 he became Henry Overton Wills Professor of Physics in Bristol. One of his students was Paul Dirac from 1921 to 1923 . Tyndall was also involved in convincing industrialist Henry Herbert Wills to finance a modern physics institute after he had first contacts with him in 1916. He brought many outstanding physicists to Bristol and thus managed to make the institute one of the leading in England. First in 1927 he brought in John Lennard-Jones , who became the first professor of theoretical physics in Great Britain, and then in 1933 Nevill Mott , who established a school of solid-state physicists there, and Cecil Powell , who founded a school of particle physicists that worked with the Cosmic rays worked as a source.

In 1948 he retired, but remained active in the administration of the university and was co-editor of Philosophical Magazine .

Tyndall was also active in science policy. Among other things, he was a member of the Council of the Royal Society in 1941 and its Vice-President in 1942, President of the Institute of Physics from 1946 to 1948 , Manager of the Royal Institution and from 1940 to 1945 a member and temporarily chairman of a scholarship committee of the Ministry of Education.

Tyndall was married with three children.

Prizes and awards

In 1933 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society . In 1950 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire (CBE) and in 1958 he received an honorary Legum Doctor (LL.D.) from Bristol University.

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SURNAME Tyndall, Arthur M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tyndall, Arthur Mannering (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British physicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Bristol
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1961
Place of death Bristol