Michael Faraday was a British scientist who discovered electromagnetic induction and established the foundations of electromagnetism. He was born in 1791 and apprenticed as a bookbinder before becoming a scientist at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. His most important discovery was that an electrical current could induce magnetism in a nearby conductor. James Clerk Maxwell was a Scottish scientist who further developed electromagnetism through his famous Maxwell's equations. He was born in 1831 and studied at the University of Edinburgh before teaching at Aberdeen University. Maxwell unified electricity, magnetism, and light through his equations, laying the foundation for many modern technologies.

1. Foundations of Electricity and Magnetism Michael Faraday & James Clerk Maxwell

2. Michael Faraday

3. Biography Michael Faraday was born in Newington, Surrey, on the 22nd of September 1791. As a young man, he was apprenticed to a bookbinder. In March,1813, Faraday was appointed assistant of the Royal Institution of Great Britain.

4. In 1825, Faraday was appointed director of the Institute’s Laboratory. He became a Fullerian professor at the Institute in 1833. He served at the Royal Institute for fifty-four years before dying in August, 1867.

5. Discoveries Discovered two Chlorides of Carbon. His most noted discovery was that electric currents could be induced by varying magnetic fields, which later led to Faraday’s Law of Induction.

6. Legacy Faraday’s name serves as a unit of electric charge (Faraday) and as the SI unit for capacitance (Farad). One device that bears the name Faraday is a cage made of conductive material used to protect objects from static fields.

7. James Clerk Maxwell

8. Biography Maxwell was born on 13 June 1831 in Edinburgh. Maxwell’s early education took place at the prestigious Edinburgh Academy. He began attending lectures at the University of Edinburgh at the age of 16. He left Edinburgh in 1850 and began attending Cambridge University.

9. In 1856, Maxwell began teaching at Aberdeen University, lecturing 15 hours a week. In 1861, he was inducted into the Royal Society, where he befriended Michael Faraday. Maxwell died in November 1879 of stomach cancer.

10. The Equations Gauss’ Law of Magnetism Gauss’ Law of Electricity Faraday’s Law of Induction Ampere’s Law

11. Legacy Maxwell’s discovery of the coincidence of the E&M equations led to the “Wave-Theory of Light”, Einstein’s discovery of Relativistic Mechanics, and the discovery of the Wave-Particle duality of Light and Matter.

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