What came to an end When Michael Faraday was twelve?
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Faraday suffered a nervous breakdown in 1839 but eventually returned to his investigations into electromagnetism. ... Faraday died at his house at Hampton Court on 25 August 1867, aged 75.
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Michael Faraday, (born September 22, 1791, Newington, Surrey, England—died August 25, 1867, Hampton Court, Surrey), English physicist and chemist whose many experiments contributed greatly to the understanding of electromagnetism.
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Michael Faraday
British physicist and chemist
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Michael Faraday, (born September 22, 1791, Newington, Surrey, England—died August 25, 1867, Hampton Court, Surrey), English physicist and chemist whose many experiments contributed greatly to the understanding of electromagnetism.
Michael Faraday
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Michael Faraday
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BORN
September 22, 1791
London or Newington, England
DIED
August 25, 1867 (aged 75)
Richmond upon Thames, England
SUBJECTS OF STUDY
electromagnetism
electric motor
electric generator
chlorine
benzene
AWARDS AND HONORS
Copley Medal (1838)
Copley Medal (1832)
DID YOU KNOW?
Faraday invented the rubber balloon while experimenting with gases.
Faraday turned down offers to become president of the Royal Society twice.
Faraday, who became one of the greatest scientists of the 19th century, began his career as a chemist. He wrote a manual of practical chemistry that reveals his mastery of the technical aspects of his art, discovered a number of new organic compounds, among them benzene, and was the first to liquefy a “permanent” gas (i.e., one that was believed to be incapable of liquefaction). His major contribution, however, was in the field of electricity and magnetism. He was the first to produce an electric current from a magnetic field, invented the first electric motor and dynamo, demonstrated the relation between electricity and chemical bonding, discovered the effect of magnetism on light, and discovered and named diamagnetism, the peculiar behaviour of certain substances in strong magnetic fields. He provided the experimental, and a good deal of the theoretical, foundation upon which James Clerk Maxwell erected classical electromagnetic field theory.