Physicist · 1791 – 1867
Michael Faraday
Little-Known Facts
- Faraday began as a bookbinder's apprentice and educated himself by reading the volumes he bound.
- He declined a knighthood and twice refused the presidency of the Royal Society.
Myths & Misconceptions
Was Faraday a trained mathematician?
No. He had little formal mathematics and expressed his ideas in physical and geometric terms, which Maxwell later cast into equations.