Michael+Faraday

Nick Bretches

__Michael //**Faraday**//__


Michael Faraday was an English scientist who contributed in the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry, In June 1832, the University of Oxford granted Faraday a Doctor of Civil Law degree (honorary). During his lifetime, Faraday  rejected a knighthood and twice refused to become. Faraday was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1838, and was one of eight foreign members elected to the French Academy of Sciences in 1844. Faraday also has a memorial plaque near Isaac Newton's tomb and was an inspiration to a well known theoretical physicist Albert Einstein who kept a picture of Michael Faraday alongside a picture of Isaac Newton and Clerk Maxwell on his study wall,Faraday invented many things like the Faraday cage, an early form of the electric motor and what would become the Bunsen burner, along with many other great inventions. Ernest Rutherford  stated; "When we consider the magnitude and extent of his discoveries and their influence on the progress of science and of industry, there is no honor too great to pay to the memory of Faraday, one of the greatest scientific discoverers of all time".  As a chemist, Faraday discovered benzene, investigated the clathrate hydrate of chlorine, invented an early form of the Bunsen burner and the system of oxidation numbers , and popularized terminology such as anode , cathode , electrode , and ion. Faraday ultimately became the first and foremost Fullerian Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, a lifetime position.

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