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Michael Faraday

1791–1867** He is the leading chemist and natural philosopher in England during the mid nineteenth century. He discovered the principle behind the electric motor, benzene, the electric transformer,and generator, the laws of electrolysis, which enabled him to develop the field theory of electromagnetism, which is one of the basics of modern physics. Faraday was born on September 22, 1791, in Newington Butts, south of London. His father was a blacksmith. He later sent a note to Davy asking for a job in the field of science; he was eventually appointed as an assistant in the Royal Institution's laboratory.
 * ENGLISH CHEMIST AND PHYSICIST

He toured Europe with Davy and helped him establish the fact that iodine was a chemical element.

Later he discovered but did not study the chemical that he named "bi-carburet of hydrogen." Ten years later Eilhardt Mitscherlich, first studied the substance that he renamed benzene. Nevetheless,Faraday is credited with benzene's discovery.

His theory was not really accepted for a while because it was seen by many physicists as opaque and not mathematical.

Faraday found that decomposition occurred in the substance itself and the poles did not need to be metal.