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Definition: Faraday, Michael from Philip's Encyclopedia

English physicist and chemist. Faraday worked as Sir Humphry Davy's assistant at the Royal Institution in London, where, in 1825 he became director of the laboratories. Faraday liquefied chlorine, discovered benzene (1825), and enunciated the laws of electrolysis (Faraday's laws). He also discovered electromagnetic induction, made the first dynamo, built a primitive electric motor, and studied nonconducting materials (dielectrics). The unit of capacitance (the farad) is named after him.


Faraday, Michael (1791-1867)

From The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Place : France Subject : biography, physics English physicist and chemist who is often regarded as the greatest experimental scientist of the 1800s. He made pioneering contributions to electricity, inventing the electric motor, electric generator and the transformer, and discovering electromagnetic induction and the laws of electrolysis. He also discovered benzene and was the first to observe that the plane of polarization of light is rotated in a magnetic field. Faraday was born in Newington, Surrey, on 22 September 1791. His father was a poor blacksmith, who went to London to seek work in the year that Faraday was born. Faraday received only a rudimentary education as a child and although he was literate, he gained little knowledge of mathematics. At the age of 14, he became an apprentice to a bookbinder in London and began to read voraciously. The article on electricity in the Encyclopedia Britannica fascinated him in particular, for it presented the view that electricity is a kind…
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Full text Article Faraday, Michael (1791-1867)

From The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Place : France Subject : biography, physics English physicist and chemist who is often regarded as the greatest experimental scientist of the 1800s. He made pioneering contributions to electricity, inventing the electric motor, electric generator and the transformer, and discovering electromagnetic…
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Full text Article FARADAY, Michael (1791–1867)

From The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature
Outstanding British chemist and physicist who gave lectures for children in London each Christmas for many years. Two courses of these were afterwards published as books, ‘edited by William Crookes’; judging by the very informal style of the books, they are probably verbatim transcripts of the…
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From Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary
A native of England, Faraday did more to advance the science of electrochemistry than any other scientist. A profound thinker and accurate experimentalist and observer, he was the first to propound correct ideas as to the nature of electrical phenomena, not only in chemistry but also in other…
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Full text Article Faraday, Michael (1791–1867).

From The Oxford Companion to British History
Chemist and pioneer of electromagnetism. As a bookbinder's apprentice, he went to Humphry *Davy's lectures at the *Royal Institution and asked to be taken on as his assistant. Accompanying Davy to Paris and Rome in 1813–15, by 1820 he was himself a prominent chemist, famous for his experimental…
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Full text Article Michael Faraday 1791–1867

From The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
English physicist and chemist The most prominent requisite to a lecturer, though perhaps not really the most important, is a good delivery…I am sorry to say that the generality of mankind cannot accompany us one short hour unless the path is strewed with flowers. Advice to a Lecturer (1960); from…
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Full text Article NOTHING

From Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
English physicist and chemist Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature … In Jones, Bence The Life and Letters of Faraday (Volume 2 ) (p. 253 ) J.B. Lippincott & Co. Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA . 1870. …
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Full text Article CONDUCTION

From Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
English physicist and chemist All these considerations impress my mind strongly with the conviction, that insulation and ordinary conduction cannot be properly separated when we are examining into their nature; that is, into the general law or laws under which their phenomena are produced. …
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Full text Article ASSERTION

From Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
English physicist and chemist A man who makes assertions, or draws conclusions, regarding any given case, ought to be competent to investigate it. He has no right to throw the onus on others, declaring it their duty to prove him right or wrong. His duty is to demonstrate the truth of that which he…
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