Faraday, Michael
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Faraday:  1791 to 1867:  age 75.
 
little formal educ.
but one of the most influential sci of all time.
 
first and foremost  Fullerian Prof of Chem at Royal Instit of Gr Brit.
 
experimentalist:  not a mathematician  (that's where Maxwell comes in)
 
Einstein revered Faraday.
 
father had been apprentice to a blacksmith.
 
at 14 Michael was apprentice to a book binder.
 
1812  at age of 20  attended lectures by Humphrey Davy
 
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