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Michael Faraday (/ ˈ f ær ə d eɪ,-d i /; 22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was an English physicist and chemist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry.
Faraday, Michael (1861). W. Crookes (ed.). A Course of Six Lectures on the Chemical History of a Candle. Griffin, Bohn & Co. ISBN 1-4255-1974-1. Full text of The Chemical History Of A Candle from Internet Archive, with illustrations. Pattison, Darcy and Michael Faraday (2016). Burn: Michael Faraday's Candle. Mims House
1831 – Michael Faraday began experiments leading to his discovery of the law of electromagnetic induction, though the discovery may have been anticipated by the work of Francesco Zantedeschi. His breakthrough came when he wrapped two insulated coils of wire around a massive iron ring, bolted to a chair, and found that upon passing a current ...
A close-up image of a candle showing the wick and the various parts of the flame; Michael Faraday lectured on "The Chemical History of a Candle".The Royal Institution's Christmas Lectures were first held in 1825, [2] and have continued on an annual basis since then except for four years during the Second World War. [3]
Michael Faraday developed the concept of lines of force to describe electric and magnetic phenomena. [13] In 1831, he writes [13] By magnetic curves, I mean the lines of magnetic forces, however modified by the juxtaposition of poles, which would be depicted by iron filings; or those to ·which a very small magnetic needle would form a tangent."
1831 – Michael Faraday: Faraday's law of induction; 1833 – William Rowan Hamilton: Hamiltonian mechanics; 1838 – Michael Faraday: Lines of force; 1838 – Wilhelm Eduard Weber and Carl Friedrich Gauss: Earth's magnetic field [clarification needed] 1842–43 – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin and Julius von Mayer: Conservation of energy
Michael Faraday was the first to propose that light should be interpreted as a field, much like the magnetic fields on which he had been working. [1] The term light field was coined by Andrey Gershun in a classic 1936 paper on the radiometric properties of light in three-dimensional space.
His biography of Michael Faraday won the Pfizer Award in 1965. At that time most work in the history of science was focused on the scientific revolution of the 17th century and the 18th century spread of Newtonian philosophy; biographies of 19th century figures, other than Charles Darwin, were still rare.