Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday
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For other uses, see Faraday (disambiguation). Michael Faraday | Portrait of Michael Faraday by Thomas Phillips (1841-1842)[1] | Born | 22 September 1791(1791-09-22)
Newington Butts, Surrey, England | Died | 25 August 1867(1867-08-25) (aged 75)
Hampton Court, Surrey, England | Residence | England | Nationality | British | Fields | Physics and chemistry | Institutions | Royal Institution | Known for | Faraday 's law of induction
Electrochemistry
Faraday effect
Faraday cage
Faraday constant
Faraday cup
Faraday 's laws of electrolysis
Faraday paradox
Faraday rotator
Faraday-efficiency effect
Faraday wave
Faraday wheel
Lines of force | Influences | Humphry Davy
William Thomas Brande | Notable awards | Royal Medal (1835 & 1846)
Copley Medal (1832 & 1838)
Rumford Medal (1846) | Signature |
Michael Faraday, FRS (22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was an English chemist and physicist (or natural philosopher, in the terminology of the time) who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry.
Faraday studied the magnetic field around a conductor carrying a DC electric current. While conducting these studies, Faraday established the basis for the electromagnetic field concept in physics, subsequently enlarged upon by James Maxwell. He similarly discovered electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism, and laws of electrolysis. He established that magnetism could affect rays of light and that there was an underlying relationship between the two phenomena.[2][3] His inventions of electromagnetic rotary devices formed the foundation of electric motor technology, and it was largely due to his efforts that electricity became viable for use in technology.
As a chemist, Michael Faraday discovered benzene, investigated the clathrate hydrate of chlorine, invented an early form of the Bunsen burner and the system of oxidation numbers,

References: 4. ^ Russell, Colin (2000). Michael Faraday: Physics and Faith. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195117638.  5 11. ^ "Michael Faraday." History of Science and Technology. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. Answers.com 4 June 2007 12 13. ^ "Jane Marcet 's Books". John H. Lienhard. The Engines of Our Ingenuity. NPR. KUHF-FM Houston. 1992. No. 744. Transcript. Retrieved on 2007-10-02. 14. ^ See pages 41-43, 60-4, and 277-80 of Geoffrey Cantor 's (1991) Michael Faraday, Sandemanian and Scientist. 15. ^ Paul 's Alley was located 10 houses south of the Barbican. See page 330 Elmes 's (1831) Topographical Dictionary of the British Metropolis. 17. ^ Jensen, William B. (2005). "The Origin of the Bunsen Burner" (PDF). Journal of Chemical Education 82 (4). http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/HS/Journal/Issues/2005/Apr/clicSubscriber/V82N04/p518.pdf.  18 19. ^ Faraday, Michael (1821). "On two new Compounds of Chlorine and Carbon, and on a new Compound of Iodine, Carbon, and Hydrogen". Philosophical Transactions 111: 47. doi:10.1098/rstl.1821.0007.  20 21. ^ Williams, L. Pearce (1965). Michael Faraday: A Biography. New York: Basic Books. pp. 122–123. ISBN 0306802996.  22 23. ^ Faraday, Michael (1859). Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics. London: Richard Taylor and William Francis. pp. 81–84. ISBN 0850668417.  24 25. ^ Faraday, Michael (1844). Experimental Researches in Electricity. 2. ISBN 0486435059.  See plate 4. 26. ^ Hamilton 's A Life of Discovery: Michael Faraday, Giant of the Scientific Revolution (2004) pp. 165-71, 183, 187-90. 27. ^ Cantor 's Michael Faraday, Sandemanian and Scientist (1991) pp. 231-3. 28. ^ Thompson’s Michael Faraday, his life and work (1901) p.95. 29. ^ Thompson (1901) p. 91. This lab entry illustrates Faraday’s quest for the connection between light and electromagnetic phenomenon 10 September 1821. 30. ^ Cantor 's Michael Faraday, Sandemanian and Scientist (1991) p. 233. 31. ^ pp. 95-98 of Thompson (1901). 32. ^ Thompson (1901) p 100. 34. ^ Brother Potamian (1913). "Francesco Zantedeschi article at the Catholic Encyclopedia". Wikisource. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_%281913%29/Francesco_Zantedeschi. Retrieved 2007-06-16.  35 36. ^ Zeeman, Pieter (1897). "The Effect of Magnetisation on the Nature of Light Emitted by a Substance". Nature 55: 347. doi:10.1038/055347a0.  37 40. ^ Gladstone, John Hall (1872). Michael Faraday. London: Macmillan and Company. p. 53. http://books.google.com/?id=pbs4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA53&lpg=PA53&dq=Faraday+French+Academy.  41 * Bence Jones, Henry (1870). The Life and Letters of Faraday. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Company. http://books.google.com/?id=YzuCdNmu5soC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Faraday.  * Cantor, Geoffrey (1991) * Gladstone, J. H. (1872). Michael Faraday. London: Macmillan. http://books.google.com/?id=pbs4AAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Faraday.  * Hamilton, James (2002) * Hamilton, James (2004). A Life of Discovery: Michael Faraday, Giant of the Scientific Revolution. New York publisher = Random House: Random House. ISBN 1-4000-6016-8.  * Hirshfeld, Alan W * Thompson, Silvanus (1901). Michael Faraday, His Life and Work. London: Cassell and Company. ISBN 1-4179-7036-7. http://books.google.com/?id=HKf5g3qYYz8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Silvanus+Thompson+faraday.  * Tyndall, John (1868) * Williams, L. Pearce (1965). Michael Faraday: A Biography. New York: Basic Books.  * The British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers Association (1931) * Agassi, Joseph (1971). Faraday as a Natural Philosopher. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.  * Ames, Joseph Sweetman (Ed.) (c1900) * Gooding, David (Ed.) (1985). Faraday Rediscovered: Essays on the Life and Work of Michael Faraday, 1791-1867. London/New York: Macmillan/Stockton.  * Thomas, John Meurig (1991) * Russell, Colin A. (Ed. Owen Gingerich) (2000). Michael Faraday: Physics and Faith (Oxford Portraits in Science Series). New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-511763-8.  [edit] External links * Works by Michael Faraday at Project Gutenberg (downloads) * "Experimental Researches in Electricity" by Michael Faraday Original text with Biographical Introduction by Professor John Tyndall, 1914, Everyman edition.