Author:Michael Faraday

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Michael Faraday (1791–1867)

A British physicist and chemist who contributed significantly to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry

Michael Faraday

Works

• The Forces of Matter
• The Chemical History of a Candle
• The subject matter of a course of six lectures on the non-metallic elements, 1853 [1]
• Experimental researches in electricity, 1855
• Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics, 1859
• Chemical manipulation, first edition 1827 [2]; second 1830 [3]; third (last hand) [4]
• On the various forces of nature and their relations to each other, 1894
• The liquefaction of gases papers, 1896
• The fundamental laws of electrolytic conduction, 1899

Articles

• On a Peculiar Class of Acoustical Figures; and on Certain Forms Assumed by Groups of Particles upon Vibrating Elastic Surfaces (1831) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 121, pp. 299-340.
• Experimental Researches in Electricity. Eleventh Series (1838) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 128, pp. 1-40.
• The Bakerian Lecture: Experimental Relations of Gold (and Other Metals) to Light (1857) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 147, pp. 145-181.

Works about Faraday

• General reference
  • “Faraday, Michael” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
  • “Faraday, Michael,” in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885-1900) in 63 vols.
  • 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica entry [5] [6] [7]
  • “Poe, Edgar Allan,” Collier's New Encyclopedia. New York: P.F. Collier & Son Co., 1921.
• Henry Bence Jones: The life and letters of Faraday, 1870. Volume 1 Volume 2
• John Tyndall: Faraday as a discoverer, 1868. Internet Archive
• The Late Professor Faraday in The Times

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.