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Between which years did Tyndall serve as a professor at Royal Institution?

  • 1853 - 1867

  • 1853 - 1887

  • 1867 - 1887

  • 1877 - 1887

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John Tyndall served as a professor at the Royal Institution from 1853 to 1887. During his tenure, he made several important contributions to the field of physics, including his work on the scattering of light by particles, which is now known as Tyndall scattering. He also conducted research on the conduction of electricity through gases and the properties of glaciers.
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