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Arthur Mannering Tyndall

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Arthur Mannering Tyndall, CBE, FRS, LLD (18 September 1881 – 29 October 1961) was an English physicist from Bristol, England.[1] His teaching activities included lecturing in atomic physics at the University of Bristol. Among his notable students was Paul Dirac, who he introduced to the laws of quantum theory.[2] The university's other early staff included John Edward Lennard-Jones, Beryl May Dent, Herbert Wakefield Banks Skinner and William Sucksmith.[3][4]

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  1. ^ H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory
  2. ^ Farmelo, Graham (2010). The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius. Faber & Faber. pp. Chapter 4, Kindle location 1306. ISBN 9780571222865.
  3. ^ Mott, Nevill Francis; Powell, Cecil Frank (November 1962). "Arthur Mannering Tyndall, 1881-1961". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 8: 159–165. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1962.0012.
  4. ^ Tyndall, Arthur Mannering (August 1956). "A History of the Department of Physics in Bristol 1876–1948. With personal reminiscences" (PDF). Bristol: University of Bristol Department of Physics. p. 24. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 January 2018. Retrieved 13 September 2020.