Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

S. About a decade later Tyndall was appointed the successor to the positions held by Michael Faraday at the Royal Institution on Faraday's retirement.   gives an account of Tyndall's vocational development prior to 1853.

Tyndall publiJohn Tyndalld seventeen books which brought state-of-the-art 19th century experimental physics to a wider audience. Later he studied thermal radiation and produced a number of discoveries about processes in the atmosphere. His initial scientific fame arose in the 1850s from his study of diamagnetism.