Michael Faraday, English Physicist
Michael Faraday (1791 - 1867), English bookbinder and scientist. Faraday experimented with electricity and magnetism, proposing that magnetism was a circular force. He is also known for discovering magnetic optical rotation, electromagnetic induction, inventing the dynamo, Bunsen burner, and formulating the second law of electrolysis. Author of Chemical Manipulation, Faraday was self-trained and contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry after an apprenticeship in Sir Humphrey Davy's lab. The farad (F) is named after him
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