Issue 66, 2017

The extraordinary impact of Michael Faraday on chemistry and related subjects

Abstract

Biographers of Michael Faraday, as well as many dictionaries of science, often describe him as a physicist, which he certainly was. But he was also an astonishingly effective chemist: in fact, he was the Fullerian Professor of Chemistry (at the Royal Institution, RI) from 1834 until the time of his death in August, 1867. To mark the sesquicentenary of his passing, this editorial, by one of his distant successors as Director and Fullerian Professor at the RI, focuses on Faraday's output and influence as a scientist.

Graphical abstract: The extraordinary impact of Michael Faraday on chemistry and related subjects

Article information

Article type
Editorial
Submitted
09 juin 2017
Accepted
09 juin 2017
First published
07 août 2017

Chem. Commun., 2017,53, 9179-9184

The extraordinary impact of Michael Faraday on chemistry and related subjects

J. M. Thomas, Chem. Commun., 2017, 53, 9179 DOI: 10.1039/C7CC90239E

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