A self-taught scientist, Michael Faraday (1791-1867) excelled in chemistry and physics to become one of the most influential thinkers in history. He’s been called the "father of electricity," (Nikola ...

The history of ‘everyone’s favorite hexagon’ illustrates the resonance of basic science and how discoveries build over time ...

If you’re a fan of science, and especially science history, no trip to London is complete without visiting the Royal Institution, browsing the extensive collection of artifacts housed in the Faraday ...

PRIOR to 1819, when Faraday published a paper on the composition of Indian Wootz steel, his contributions to knowledge had been represented by comparatively short communications, with no very obvious ...

THE Faraday diary is not a find in the spectacular sense of that of the Boswell papers. Faraday's laboratory notebooks, various lecture notes and account books, the notes which he took of lectures by ...