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Michael Faraday was an English scientist born in 1791 who made seminal contributions to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. Through his research on magnetic fields and electromagnetic induction, he established the basis for modern electromagnetic theory. As an excellent experimentalist, he discovered principles like diamagnetism, electrolysis, and electromagnetic rotation that formed the foundation of technologies like electric motors. He held the position of Fullerian Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution and conveyed his ideas clearly despite limited mathematical skills. His work was built upon by James Clerk Maxwell to develop equations that describe electromagnetic phenomena.

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Michael Faraday was an English scientist born in 1791 who made seminal contributions to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. Through his research on magnetic fields and electromagnetic induction, he established the basis for modern electromagnetic theory. As an excellent experimentalist, he discovered principles like diamagnetism, electrolysis, and electromagnetic rotation that formed the foundation of technologies like electric motors. He held the position of Fullerian Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution and conveyed his ideas clearly despite limited mathematical skills. His work was built upon by James Clerk Maxwell to develop equations that describe electromagnetic phenomena.

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MICHAEL FARADAY

Michael Faraday(born 22 September 1791 –died 25 August 1867) was an English scientist who
contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include the
principles underlying electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis.

Although Faraday received little formal education, 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 basis for 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.

As a chemist, Faraday discovered benzene, investigated the clathrate hydrate of chlorine, invented an
early form of the Bunsen burner and the system of oxidation numbers, and popularised terminology
such as "anode", "cathode", "electrode" and "ion". Faraday ultimately became the first and foremost
Fullerian Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution, a lifetime position.

Faraday was an excellent experimentalist who conveyed his ideas in clear and simple language; his
mathematical abilities, however, did not extend as far as trigonometry and were limited to the simplest
algebra. James Clerk Maxwell took the work of Faraday and others and summarized it in a set of
equations which is accepted as the basis of all modern theories of electromagnetic phenomena. On
Faraday's uses of lines of force, Maxwell wrote that they show Faraday "to have been in reality a
mathematician of a very high order – one from whom the mathematicians of the future may derive
valuable and fertile methods."The SI unit of capacitance is named in his honour: the farad.

Michael Faraday was born on 22 September 1791 in Newington Butts, Surrey (which is now part of the
London Borough of Southwark). His family was not well off. His father, James, was a member of the
Glasite sect of Christianity. James Faraday moved his wife and two children to London during the winter
of 1790 from Outhgill in Westmorland, where he had been an apprentice to the village blacksmith.
Michael was born in the autumn of that year. The young Michael Faraday, who was the third of four
children, having only the most basic school education, had to educate himself.

At the age of 14 he became an apprentice to George Riebau, a local bookbinder and bookseller in
Blandford Street. During his seven-year apprenticeship Faraday read many books, including Isaac Watts's
The Improvement of the Mind, and he enthusiastically implemented the principles and suggestions
contained [Link] also developed an interest in science, especially in electricity. Faraday was
particularly inspired by the book Conversations on Chemistry by Jane Marcet.

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