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Published on: February 2, 2012
The extraordinary impact of Michael Faraday on chemistry and related subjects
1Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge, CB3 0FS, UK. jmt2@cam.ac.uk and University Chemical Laboratories, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, UK.
Abstract:
Biographers of Michael Faraday, as well as many dictionaries of science, often describe him as a physicist, which he certainly was. But he was also an astonishingly effective chemist: in fact, he was the Fullerian Professor of Chemistry (at the Royal Institution, RI) from 1834 until the time of his death in August, 1867. To mark the sesquicentenary of his passing, this editorial, by one of his distant successors as Director and Fullerian Professor at the RI, focuses on Faraday's output and influence as a scientist.
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