Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun john_tyndall

1 sense of john tyndall

Sense 1
Tyndall, John Tyndall -- (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))
       INSTANCE OF=> physicist -- (a scientist trained in physics)