Today we celebrate the birthday of scientist Michael Faraday (1791-1867). What comes to mind when you think of Faraday? The Faraday cage, of course! But like many other 19th scientists generally ...

Michael Faraday, a British scientist who was credited with the discovery of electromagnetic induction, the principle behind the electric transformer and generator—was born September 22, 1791, in the ...

Known as the “father of electrical engineering,” you probably know Michael Faraday is most famous for his contribution to the field of electromagnetism. Sept. 11, 2017 Known as the “father of ...

We take so much of modern technology for granted: radio, telephones, film and television, computers, and the Internet all enable us to communicate at the speed of light. But we would not have any of ...

Although he was primarily known as a chemist, Michael Faraday’s research into electricity and magnetism underpin much of our understanding of the universe and modern physics. Born Sept. 22, 1791, into ...

Although new electric motor types are still being invented, the basic principle of an electric motor has changed little in the past century-and-a-half: a stator and a rotor built of magnetic materials ...

…what do they have in common? The answer can be found it the latest issue of Physical Review Letters. In 1831* Michael Faraday published a paper in the Journal of the Royal Institute of Chemistry ...

This week we celebrated the anniversary of the birth of Michael Faraday, perhaps one of the most prolific and influential scientists who ever lived, and whose ground-breaking research into the ...