Born: Newington, Surrey, England
Faraday is best known as the greatest experimental physicist of the 19th century. It was Faraday who invented the electric motor, generator, and transformer, and first described electromagnetic induction and the laws of electrolysis. Faraday had no formal schooling, although he attended many lectures. The most inspirational of these lectures were by the famed chemist Sir Humphry Davy. Faraday became Davy’s assistant and thus began an extraordinary career as an experimentalist. Faraday’s contributions are recognized by the use of his name as he unit of electrical capacitance, the farad in the SI system, and the Faraday constant in electrolysis.
Faraday is best known as the greatest experimental physicist of the 19th century. It was Faraday who invented the electric motor, generator, and transformer, and first described electromagnetic induction and the laws of electrolysis. Faraday had no formal schooling, although he attended many lectures. The most inspirational of these lectures were by the famed chemist Sir Humphry Davy. Faraday became Davy’s assistant and thus began an extraordinary career as an experimentalist. Faraday’s contributions are recognized by the use of his name as he unit of electrical capacitance, the farad in the SI system, and the Faraday constant in electrolysis.
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