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    The English chemist and physicist Michael Faraday was Born in Surrey, the son of a poor blacksmith. He was largely self-taught, never thought too highly of himself but was essentially a very happy man. He is best known today for his research into electricity and magnetism. His reputation, in his own time, was based on his remarkable lecturing skills; the public at the time looked on electricity as a useful toy and was more interested in the more useful inventions of Stephenson and Joule. He was apprenticed to a bookbinder in 1805. Having attended a lecture by Humpray Davy, he presented Davy with a bound version of the lecture. Davy was so impressed with the detailed notes and drawings that he offered him a job as a laboratory assistant. From there on the 
relationship between the greatest scientists of their day flourished. He also collaborated with the mathematician, James Clerk Maxwell who expressed many of Faraday´s ideas in mathematical form. 

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