John Tyndall was an Irish physicist, born on 2 August 1820 in Leighlinbridge, County Carlow, known for his work on diamagnetism, infrared radiation and the greenhouse effect. He first visited the Alps in 1856 for scientific reasons and became a pioneering mountain climber, returning almost every summer. He was a member of the first party to reach the top of the Weisshorn in 1861 and led one of the early teams to the summit of the Matterhorn in 1868, and his name is linked with the golden age of alpinism. He studied glacier motion in the Alps and had a summer chalet at Belalp.
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He visited the Alps almost every summer from 1856 onward
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was a member of the very first mountain-climbing team to reach the top of the Weisshorn (1861)
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