Learn about Michael Faraday’s discoveries, scholarly significance, and influence on contemporary physics to see why he is regarded as the father of electromagnetism.

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 ...

In a move which caught space scientists … by surprise, the House Appropriations Committee last week voted to decimate the budget for the Venus Pioneer programme … [T]he Committee suggested that a ...

As an electromagnetic radiation phenomenon, it’s perhaps not so surprising that light is affected by a magnetic field. This Faraday effect (FE) has been used since its discovery by [Michael Faraday] ...

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