John Tyndall
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) [Britanski fizik (rojen na Irskem), ki je znan po svojih eksperimentih o prosojnosti plinov, absorpciji sevanja toplote s strani plinov, ter prenosu zvoka skozi ozračje; bil je prva oseba, ki je pojasnil zakaj je modro nebo podnevi (1820-1893).]