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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Science writers Forbes (Imitation of Life) and Mahon (The Man Who Changed Everything) explore the lives of ground-breaking physicists Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell in this work that blends ...

Improvement of the mind -- Perceptions perfectly novel -- The university of experience -- Fear and confidence -- Rising to the light -- He smells the truth -- A twitch of the needle -- Toil and ...