{"product_id":"9783836400732","title":"Lessons in Electricity","description":"John Tyndall (1820-1893) is one of Ireland's greatest scientists and educators. Amongst his many achievements, he is best known for the explanation of why the sky is blue - the scattering of light by small particles suspended in the atmosphere. This colour is described as Tyndall Blue.\u003cbr\u003eHe was also a gifted public lecturer, an avid promoter of the public understanding of science, and a famous mountaineer.\u003cbr\u003eBeside that Tyndall was one of the first scientists to recognise the earth's natural greenhouse effect and to identify the relative radiative forcing values of the different greenhouse gases.\u003cbr\u003eIn 1853 he was appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy at the\u003cbr\u003eRoyal Institution in London and began to work beside Michael\u003cbr\u003eFaraday. He succeeded Faraday as Superintendent in 1862.","brand":"VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47056549740784,"sku":"9783836400732","price":64.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9783836400732_p0.jpg?v=1763687662","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9783836400732","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}