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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 7th most popular physicist (down from 6th in 2019), the 37th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 20th in 2019) 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 7 out of 851. Before him are Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Stephen Hawking, and Wilhelm Röntgen. After him are Niels Bohr, Hans Christian Ørsted, Max Planck, Alessandro Volta, Albert A. Michelson, and Pierre Curie.

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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, James Buchanan, Carl Czerny, 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 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Charles Baudelaire, Maximilian I of Mexico, Otto of Greece, Emperor Kōmei, Sakamoto Ryōma, Théodore Rousseau, Franz Bopp, Jean-Victor Poncelet, Maria Theresa of Austria, and Prince William of Hesse-Kassel.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Michael Faraday ranks 37 out of 8,785. Before him are William IV of the United Kingdom (1765), George IV of the United Kingdom (1762), Richard I of England (1157), Anne Boleyn (1501), Queen Victoria (1819), and Mary II of England (1662). After him are Edward V of England (1470), Agatha Christie (1890), H. G. Wells (1866), Thomas Hobbes (1588), Edmond Halley (1656), and Alexander Graham Bell (1847).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Michael Faraday ranks 3. Before him are Isaac Newton (1643), and Stephen Hawking (1942). After him are J. J. Thomson (1856), James Prescott Joule (1818), Edward Victor Appleton (1892), William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824), John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842), Robert Hooke (1635), Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869), Owen Willans Richardson (1879), and James Clerk Maxwell (1831).

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