English scientist who lived from 1791 to 1867. Despite little formal education
he laid the foundations of classical Field theory, later developed by Maxwell, James Clerk. Faraday worked (1813-62) at the laboratory of the Royal Institution in
London, becoming its director in 1825. He developed the first Dynamo (in the form of a Copper disk rotated between the poles of a permanent magnet - see Magnetism), the precursor of modern dynamos and Generators. From Faraday's and Henry, Joseph independent discoveries (1831) of electromagnetic Induction stemmed a vast development of electrical Machinery for industry. In 1825 Faraday discovered the Compound Benzene. He formulated (1834) Faraday's law, which states that the number of Moles of substance produced at an Electrode during Electrolysis is directly proportional to the number of moles of electrons transferred at
that electrode.
The unit of Capacitance, Farad, is named for him.