Michael Faraday, a British scientist who was credited with the discovery of electromagnetic induction, the principle behind the electric transformer and generator—was born September 22, 1791, in the ...

Michael Faraday, despite his initial background as a chemist, made significant contributions to the understanding of electricity and magnetism. Faraday's self-education, beginning with an ...

Nineteenth-century English scientist Faraday, who made the revolutionary discovery that electricity, magnetism and light are all related, personified the self-made man. Son of a blacksmith, Faraday ...

Michael Faraday's book binding shop. (Courtesy of the Royal Institution of Great Britain.) As a young boy, Michael Faraday worked in a bookbinding shop in London, reading every book that he bound. By ...

Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 50, No. 1 (Jan., 1996), pp. 65-74 (10 pages) In 1824 Michael Faraday was an established member of the scientific community in London, but it was ...

THE lives of men to whose genius and untiring devotion to research the stately edifice of modern science owes its existence, have a fascination and an interest which appeal to a much wider circle than ...

More than 105 years after his death, the Royal Institution has finally paid tribute to Michael Faraday. Earlier this week the Queen, the Royal Institution’s patron, opened a museum, an archive room ...