Three years before Tyndall, a U.S. scientist published a two-page paper that described how different gases absorb solar energy. The scientist was Eunice Foote, a suffragist from upstate New York. Little is known about Foote; she published just one other article, on a different subject, and no further trace of her work has been found. Foote’s research was similar to but less comprehensive than Tyndall’s work. No evidence exists that Tyndall knew of it.
