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'''''John Tyndall'''''(1820–1893) was [[Michael Faraday]]'s successor at the Royal Institute. In comparison to Faraday, his contributions were by and large irrelevant to either actual science in general or physics in particular. Where Faraday was devout [[Christian]] and an elder within his church, Tyndall was an anti-Catholic, even somewhat fanatical, who campaigned tirelessly for liberation of science from ecclesiastical, or Church, influences. Many professors who hold to non-religious views are in fact his mondern day counterparts.