He's a physicist/chemist, English, a faithful Sandermanian Christian, he rejected knighthood and refused to be president of the royal society and refrained from participating in manufacturing chemical weapons for the Crimean Wars.
We owe him about half what we know about electricity
2007-01-02 18:29:34 · 3 answers · asked by iam_an_elf_archer 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Michael Faraday
2007-01-02 18:35:44 · answer #1 · answered by Scythian1950 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Michael Faraday, FRS (September 22, 1791 – August 25, 1867) was an English chemist and physicist (or natural philosopher, in the terminology of that time) who contributed significantly to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. He established that magnetism could affect rays of light and that there was an underlying relationship between the two phenomena.
Some historians of science refer to him as the best experimentalist in the history of science. It was largely due to his efforts that electricity became viable for use in technology. The SI unit of capacitance, the farad, is named after him, as is the Faraday constant, the charge on a mole of electrons (about 96,485 coulombs). Faraday's law of induction states that a magnetic field changing in time creates a proportional electromotive force.
He held the post of Fullerian Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Faraday was the first, and most famous, holder of this position to which he was appointed for life.
2007-01-03 05:19:44 · answer #2 · answered by wierdos!!! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You must be talking about Micheal Faraday (1791-1867), a fine man indeed.
2007-01-03 02:45:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋