[BKARTS] Faraday

[Teri L Herbert <herbertl@xxxxxxxx>]

I was looking for famous people with chemistry degrees
and ran across this biography of Michael Faraday
"Born in 1791 to a poor family in England, Michael Faraday was extremely 
curious, questioning everything. He felt an urgent need to know more. At 
age 13, he became an errand boy for a bookbinding shop in London. He read 
every book that he bound, and decided that one day he would write a book 
of his own. He became interested in the concept of energy, specifically 
force. Because of his early reading and experiments with the idea of 
force, he was able to make important discoveries in electricity later in 
life. He eventually became a famous chemist and physicist. Michael 
Faraday, one of the world's greatest experimental physicist, is known as 
the father of the electric motor, electric generator, electric 
transformer, and electrolysis. He wrote the "Law of Induction" and is 
known for the "Faraday Effect". Two units in physics were named in his 
honor, the farad (for capacitance) and the faraday (as a unit of charge)."
(from the US Dept of Energy site)
Interesting his early career in bookbinding!
Teri Lynn Herbert

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