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Where did John Tyndall serve as a professor of physics?

  • Cambridge University

  • Oxford University

  • Royal Institution of Great Britain

  • Trinity College Dublin

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John Tyndall served as a professor of physics at the Royal Institution of Great Britain from 1853 to 1887. He was a pioneering scientist who made significant contributions to the fields of thermodynamics, optics, and atmospheric science. He is best known for his work on the greenhouse effect, which he helped to explain through his studies of the absorption of infrared radiation by water vapor and carbon dioxide.
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