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.[http://www.phy.bris.ac.uk/history.html H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory] 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.{{cite book|last=Farmelo |first=Graham |title=The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius |publisher=Faber & Faber |year=2010 |isbn=9780571222865 |pages=Chapter 4, Kindle location 1306}} The university's other early staff included John Edward Lennard-Jones, Beryl May Dent, Herbert Wakefield Banks Skinner and William Sucksmith.{{cite journal| title=Arthur Mannering Tyndall, 1881-1961| last1=Mott| first1=Nevill Francis| author1-link=Nevill Francis Mott| last2=Powell| first2=Cecil Frank| author2-link=C. F. Powell| journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society| date=November 1962| volume=8| pages=159–165| doi=10.1098/rsbm.1962.0012| doi-access=free }}{{cite web| last1=Tyndall| first1=Arthur Mannering| date=August 1956| title=A History of the Department of Physics in Bristol 1876{{ndash}}1948. With personal reminiscences| publisher=University of Bristol Department of Physics| location=Bristol| language=English| page=24| url=http://www.bristol.ac.uk/physics/media/histories/06-tyndall1.pdf| access-date=13 September 2020| url-status=live| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180118182203/http://www.bristol.ac.uk/physics/media/histories/06-tyndall1.pdf| archive-date=18 January 2018}}

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