Faraday,Michael

Faraday,Michael
Far·a·day (fărʹə-dā', -dē), Michael. 1791-1867.
British physicist and chemist who discovered electromagnetic induction (1831) and proposed the field theory later developed by Maxwell and Einstein.

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