In 1845, Michael Faraday discovered what’s known today as the Faraday Effect—which describes how light and electromagnetism ...

Nearly two centuries after Michael Faraday first showed that magnetism can twist light, physicists have uncovered a hidden ...

Scientists have discovered that light’s long-ignored magnetic field may directly drive the Faraday effect.

Originally published: Faraday. London : HarperCollins, 2002. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001 ...

Nineteenth-century English scientist Faraday, who made the revolutionary discovery that electricity, magnetism and light are all related, personified the self-made man. Son of a blacksmith, Faraday ...

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem discovered that the magnetic component of light plays a direct role in the Faraday Effect ...

Michael Faraday, despite his initial background as a chemist, made significant contributions to the understanding of electricity and magnetism. Faraday's self-education, beginning with an ...

LONDON, (WHTM) — One of the greatest scientific minds in history was largely self-educated. Michael Faraday (1791-1867) was born to a poor family, and received only a few years of formal school ...

For nearly two centuries, scientists have believed that only the electric side of light played a role in certain magnetic ...

In this gripping and expansive reexamination of the Scopes Monkey Trial, a lightning-rod debate over what was allowed to be taught in public schools caps a decades-long run of Continue reading » The ...