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Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday was an English chemist and physicist who contributed vastly to the study of electrochemistry and electromagnetism. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism, and electrolysis. Although Faraday received little formal education, as a self-made man, he was one of the most influential scientists in history. It was by his research on the magnetic field around a conductor carrying a direct current that Faraday established the concept of the electromagnetic field in physics. Faraday also established that magnetism could affect rays of light and that there was an underlying relationship between the two phenomena. He similarly discovered the principles of electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism, and the laws of electrolysis. His inventions of electromagnetic rotary devices formed the foundation of electric motor technology, and it was largely due to his efforts that electricity became practical for use in technology. The SI unit of capacitance, the farad, is named after him.
science · English chemist and physicist (1791–1867) · physicist · chemist · inventor · writer · university teacher · also Michael Faraday, Faraday
Born 22 September 1791 · Died 25 August 1867 · Q8750
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Also derives its name from Michael Faraday
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By a $2,000,000 grant from the John Templeton Foundation to carry out academic research, to foster understanding of the interaction between science and religion, and to engage public understanding in both these subject a
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Faraday was ranked number 22 in the BBC's list of the 100 Greatest Britons following a UK-wide vote
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Under the title "Faraday's Electricity", he featured in their issue along with Charles Darwin, Edward Jenner and Alan Turing
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As a pioneer of electricity he featured in their Scientific Achievements issue along with pioneers in three other fields (Charles Babbage (computing), Frank Whittle (jet engine) and Robert Watson-Watt (radar)
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Is at the Elephant & Castle gyratory system, near Faraday's birthplace at Newington Butts, London
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Awarded Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order.
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And receiving the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics for his success
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Commemorates Faraday at 48 Blandford Street in London's Marylebone district
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Died 1867-08-25.
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“But still try, for who knows what is possible...”
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“The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.”
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“The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.”
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Won Albert Medal (1866).
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To Barnsbury Grove, Islington; this North London location was where Faraday served the final two years of his second term as elder prior to his resignation from that post
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Faraday used a spectroscope to search for a different alteration of light, the change of spectral lines by an applied magnetic field
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Faraday retired to live there
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Won Royal Society Bakerian Medal (1857).
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Discovered that the optical properties of gold colloids differed from those of the corresponding bulk metal
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At the Royal Institution, and, in 1862, he appeared before a Public Schools Commission to give his views on education in Great Britain
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Was elected as associated member to the Royal Institute of the Netherlands, which two years later became the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and he was subsequently made foreign member
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As a result of representations by the Prince Consort, Faraday was awarded a grace and favour house in Hampton Court in Middlesex, free of all expenses and upkeep
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Won Rumford Medal (1846).
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Together with Charles Lyell, he produced a lengthy and detailed report on a serious explosion in the colliery at Haswell, County Durham, which killed 95 miners
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Faraday discovered that many materials exhibit a weak repulsion from a magnetic field: an effect he termed diamagnetism
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Was elected to the American Philosophical Society
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Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1839).
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But eventually returned to his investigations into electromagnetism
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Won Copley Medal (1838).
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Won Royal Medal (1835).
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Faraday became the first Fullerian Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, a position to which he was appointed for life without the obligation to deliver lectures
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Won Copley Medal (1832).
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Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1832).
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Faraday was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Completed a series of experiments aimed at investigating the fundamental nature of electricity; Faraday used "static", batteries, and "animal electricity" to produce the phenomena of electrostatic attraction, electrol
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But it took nearly 50 years before all the technology, including Joseph Swan's incandescent filament light bulbs used here, came into common use"
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Began his great series of experiments in which he discovered electromagnetic induction, recording in his laboratory diary on 28 October 1831 that he was "making many experiments with the great magnet of the Royal Soci
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Became Director of the Laboratory of the Royal Institution
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Where lecturer's would present their latest research to members
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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1824).
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Faraday briefly set up a circuit to study whether a magnetic field could regulate the flow of a current in an adjacent wire, but he found no such relationship
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Soon after the Danish physicist and chemist Hans Christian Ørsted discovered the phenomenon of electromagnetism, Davy and William Hyde Wollaston tried, but failed, to design an electric motor
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Faraday continued his laboratory work, exploring electromagnetic properties of materials and developing requisite experience
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Faraday reported the first synthesis of compounds made from carbon and chlorine, hexachloroethane and perchloroethylene, and published his results the following year
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When Davy damaged his eyesight in an accident with nitrogen trichloride, he decided to hire Michael Faraday as an assistant
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At the age of 20 and at the end of his apprenticeship, Faraday attended lectures by the eminent English chemist Humphry Davy of the Royal Institution and the Royal Society, and John Tatum, founder of the City Philosophic
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Born 1791-09-22.
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