= Michael Faraday
{c}
{title2=1791–1867}
{wiki}
<Michael Faraday> connected <chemistry> with quantitative <electricity> through <electrolysis>. His experimental treatment related the amount of material transformed at an <electrode> to the <electric charge> passed through the apparatus, the basis of <Faraday's laws of electrolysis>.
His candle lectures made a different connection between apparatus and explanation: the wick supplies melted fuel through <capillary action>, while the flame's products reveal the chemical transformations involved in <combustion>.<The Chemical History of a Candle by Michael Faraday>[Lecture I: melting reservoir, wick and capillary attraction; Lectures III–V: combustion products]{ref}
A <chemist> whose route into experimental research began with a bookbinding apprenticeship (1805–1812). He became a laboratory assistant at the Royal Institution in 1813, its laboratory director in 1825, and Fullerian Professor of <chemistry> from 1833 to 1867.<Michael Faraday (1791–1867)>[Biography: Ri positions and bookbinding apprenticeship; Fullerian chemistry professorship, 1833–1867]{ref}
\Image[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Michael_Faraday_sitting_crop.jpg]
{title=Portrait of <Michael Faraday>}
{source=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Michael_Faraday_sitting_crop.jpg}
{width=240}
Back to article page
