Birthday of Michael Faraday
Science City celebrates the Birthday of Michael Faraday
The celebration is the tribute to the great pioneer of electricity and to inspire the younger generation towards fundamental sciences
If ou work with anything that requires electricity, you might want to know who Michael Faraday was - as today is his birthday!
On this day, September 22nd, 1791 in South London, England, Michael Faraday was born. To celebrate this great scientist birthday, Gujarat Science City (GSC), working under the aegis of the Department of Science & Technology, Government of Gujarat, is organizing a special programme on 22nd September 2011 (Thursday) on the theme of "The Genius of Michael Faraday"
The Birth Anniversary celebration of Michael Faraday will be the tribute to the great pioneer of electricity and to inspire our younger generation towards fundamental sciences, which has a vital role to play in today's competitive world. It has been established that only fundamental science can lays the long-term foundation for innovation and prosperity.
Without Michael Faraday, our world would be a very different and possibly darker place. Every time you flick on a lamp, fire up your laptop or switch on the kettle, it's him you have to thank for turning the electricity that powers them from a party-trick curiosity in to a world-driving technology.
Michael Faraday, born in 22nd September 1791, by all accounts displayed an early curiosity about the natural world and also had a great love of tools and fine workmanship. He is, of course, well known in the scientific world for his extensive work in the area of electricity and magnetism with a special interest in the area of electrochemical. Much of his work was done during the nearly forty years he served as the Superintendent of the House and Laboratory at the Royal Institution in London. He also had a special interest in the process of thinking and learning.
Faraday's work and discoveries earned him many titles and honors throughout his scientific career. An unfortunate bout of ill health but a stop to further research and on 25th August of 1867, Faraday died.
Without him, the words "electrode" "ion" and "cathode" may never have existed and the fundamental principles behind the electric motor never thoroughly worked out.
Every school student learns that moving a magnet inside a coil of wire produces an electrical current. That was Faraday's original experiment and took a man of humble beginnings in to the books of modern world history. Michael Faraday not only discovered the role of electromagnetism but also the compound benzene reminding everyone who knew him that he was not just a physicist but a chemist, but the founder of basic sciences in the earlier times.
GSC has initiating the celebration of such great scientists birth anniversaries to educate the students not only in the key ideas of the scientific field but also the people who brought these great ideas and discoveries in to the world. The celebration aims to regards and respects to this great scientists as well as to encourage new generation to follow their examples of courage, determination, honesty and willingness to great work.
The Programme includes a special seminar session on the theme, interactive session, screening of films and presentations and guided tour to the theme pavilion Hall of Space, Science and Electricity in Science City.
Dr. D. G. Kuberkar, Head of the Department of Saurashtra University and Dr. Rajaraman Ganesh, Research Scientists at Institute of Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, will conduct interactive sessions during the seminar to be held from 2.30pm to 4.30pm in Auditorium-I. Shri Dilip S Gadhavi, Executive Director, GSC will preside over the programme.
School and college students, science educators and communicators, and other interested members are requested to attend the programme and to explore more on this legendary scientist whose work showed the way for future curious characters in basic sciences.
So, let’s all celebrate the life of this self-educated, lower class, son of a blacksmith who laid the foundations for much of our present technological society.
Happy Birthday to Michael Faraday!
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22 September Michael Faraday's Birthday
| Michael Faraday | |
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 Portrait of Michael Faraday by Thomas Phillips (1841-1842) | |
| Born | 22 September 1791 Newington Butts, Surrey, England |
| Died | 25 August 1867 (aged 75) Hampton Court, Surrey, England |
| Residence | England |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Physics and chemistry |
| Institutions | Royal Institution |
| Known for | Faraday's law of induction Electrochemistry Faraday effect Faraday cage Faraday constant Faraday cup Faraday's laws of electrolysis Faraday paradox Faraday rotator Faraday-efficiency effect Faraday wave Faraday wheel Lines of force |
| Influences | Humphry Davy William Thomas Brande |
| Notable awards | Royal Medal (1835 & 1846) Copley Medal (1832 & 1838) Rumford Medal (1846) |
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Michael Faraday, FRS (22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was an English chemist and physicist (or natural philosopher, in the terminology of the time) who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry.
Faraday studied the magnetic field around a conductor carrying a DC electric current, and established the basis for the electromagnetic field concept in physics. He discovered electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism, and laws of electrolysis. He established that magnetism could affect rays of light and that there was an underlying relationship between the two phenomena. His inventions of electromagnetic rotary devices formed the foundation of electric motor technology, and it was largely due to his efforts that electricity became viable for use in technology.
As a chemist, Michael Faraday discovered benzene, investigated the clathrate hydrate of chlorine, invented an early form of the Bunsen burner and the system of oxidation numbers, and popularized terminology such as anode, cathode, electrode, and ion.
Although Faraday received little formal education and knew little of higher mathematics, such as calculus, he was one of the most influential scientists in history. Historians of science refer to him as the best experimentalist in the history of science. The SI unit of capacitance, the farad, is named after him, as is the Faraday constant, the charge on a mole of electrons (about 96,485 coulombs). Faraday's law of induction states that magnetic flux changing in time creates a proportional electromotive force.
Faraday was the first and foremost Fullerian Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, a position to which he was appointed for life.
Albert Einstein kept a photograph of Faraday on his study wall alongside pictures of Isaac Newton and James Clerk Maxwell.
Faraday was highly religious; he was a member of the Sandemanian Church, a Christian sect founded in 1730 that demanded total faith and commitment. Biographers have noted that "a strong sense of the unity of God and nature pervaded Faraday's life and work.
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