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Michael Faraday, born on September 22, 1791 in Newington Butts, England, was a prominent chemist and physicist famous for his researches on electromagnetism and electrochemistry.
Faraday used to attend the lectures given by the English chemist, Humphry Davy of the Royal Institution, which lead to Faraday’s employment as a Chemical Assistant at the Royal Institution on March 1, 1813.
In 1821, Hans Christian Ostred, the Danish physicist and chemist, discovered the electromagnetism. Later Davy and William Hyde Wollaston, the British scientist tried to make an electric motor but failed. Faraday helped them and thus he built a device which produced an electromagnetic rotation. He gave the theory of electromagnetic fields.
He confirmed the telegraph prototype made by William Fothergill Cooke, one of the English inventors of the electric telegraph, but refused to help him. Faraday died on Aug 25, 1867 in Hampton Court, England ( www.bbc.co.uk/history 25March,2012).
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