He died in 1893 when his wife accidentally gave him an overdose of chloral, a sleeping draught.
He died in 1893 when his wife accidentally gave him an overdose of chloral, a sleeping draught. Although he had no university education, he became director of the Royal Institution. FTP, name this British scientist, one of the first men to scale the  Matterhorn, best known for his 1859 discovery of an effect that explained why the sky is blue, based on his study of how a beam of light is made visible by scattered particles in the air.
He died in 1893 when his wife accidentally gave him an overdose of chloral, a sleeping draught.
John Tyndall