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Faraday, Michael

A Dictionary of British History | 2004 | | © A Dictionary of British History 2004, originally published by Oxford University Press 2004. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Faraday, Michael (1791–1867). Chemist and pioneer of electromagnetism. As a bookbinder's apprentice, he went to Humphry Davy's lectures at the Royal Institution and asked to be taken on as his assistant. By 1820 he was himself a prominent chemist, famous for his experimental skill. He isolated benzene in 1825, and when Davy died in 1829 he worked on the nature of electricity, magnetism, and light.

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