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Michael Faraday

1791 - 1867

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Michael Faraday (; 22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was an English chemist and physicist who contributed to the study of electrochemistry and electromagnetism. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism, and electrolysis. Although Faraday received little formal education, as a self-made man, he was one of the most influential scientists in history. It was by his research on the magnetic field around a conductor carrying a direct current that Faraday established the concept of the electromagnetic field in physics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Faraday is the 6th most popular physicist, the 20th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 3rd most popular British Physicist.

Michael Faraday was a British scientist who is most famous for his work with electricity and electromagnetism. He is credited with inventing the electric motor and dynamo.

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Among physicists, Michael Faraday ranks 6 out of 851. Before him are Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Wilhelm Röntgen, and Stephen Hawking. After him are Max Planck, Alessandro Volta, Hans Christian Ørsted, Pierre Curie, Ernest Rutherford, and Niels Bohr.

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Among people born in 1791, Michael Faraday ranks 1. After him are Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, Charles Babbage, Samuel Morse, Théodore Géricault, Carl Czerny, James Buchanan, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Franz Bopp, Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Francesco Hayez, and Johann Franz Encke. Among people deceased in 1867, Michael Faraday ranks 1. After him are Charles Baudelaire, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Maximilian I of Mexico, Emperor Kōmei, Franz Bopp, Théodore Rousseau, Otto of Greece, Sakamoto Ryōma, Jean-Victor Poncelet, Maria Theresa of Austria, and Victor Cousin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Michael Faraday ranks 20 out of 8,785. Before him are Paul McCartney (1942), Anthony Hopkins (1937), William IV of the United Kingdom (1765), Queen Victoria (1819), Stephen Hawking (1942), and Richard I of England (1157). After him are Henry VIII of England (1491), Agatha Christie (1890), Thomas Hobbes (1588), Alan Turing (1912), Mary II of England (1662), and Mick Jagger (1943).

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Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Michael Faraday ranks 3. Before him are Isaac Newton (1643), and Stephen Hawking (1942). After him are James Prescott Joule (1818), Robert Hooke (1635), James Clerk Maxwell (1831), Paul Dirac (1902), J. J. Thomson (1856), William Gilbert (1544), William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824), Thomas Young (1773), and James Chadwick (1891).

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