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 Michael Faraday & Faraday Crater - The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, U.K. Posted by:  Mike_bjm
N 52° 27.028 W 001° 56.172
30U E 572294 N 5811674
Michael Faraday was a nineteenth century British physicist and Chemist.
Waymark Code: WM12HBY
Location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 05/29/2020
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This colossal bronze sculpture by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi in honour of Michael Faraday, can be found near to the University of Birmingham’s West Gate, and was commissioned to mark the centenary of the university in 2000. ( visit link) “Sir Eduardo Paolozzi CBE, RA (1924–2005) "Faraday". Bronze, 2000. West Gate, outside University Railway Station.
Sir Eduardo Paolozzi said of this colossal bronze sculpture, commissioned to mark the centenary of the University of Birmingham’s Royal Charter, that it was ‘not of Faraday, but for him’. Faraday discovered the laws of electro-magnetic rotation and electrical induction and, among many other principles, explored the science of terrestrial magnetism. The loops of bronze between the figure’s hands are a visual manifestation of natural fields of force.
Paolozzi has here articulated the achievements of all experimental scientists who unlock and transform understanding of natural phenomena, and has also created an allegorical figure representing the control of power. His figure of another great scientist, Newton (1997), stands outside the British Library. Cut in the bronze around the base of the figure are lines from The Dry Salvages by T.S. Eliot. These reflect upon growth and change, and bear a valuable message for all University students: ‘Here between the hither and the further shore, While time is withdrawn, consider the future, And the past with an equal mind.’”
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"Michael Faraday, (born September 22, 1791, Newington, Surrey, England - died August 25, 1867, Hampton Court, Surrey), English physicist and chemist whose many experiments contributed greatly to the understanding of electromagnetism." (visit link)
"Faraday was a British chemist and physicist who contributed significantly to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry.
Michael Faraday was born on 22 September 1791 in south London. His family was not well off and Faraday received only a basic formal education. When he was 14, he was apprenticed to a local bookbinder and during the next seven years, educated himself by reading books on a wide range of scientific subjects. In 1812, Faraday attended four lectures given by the chemist Humphry Davy at the Royal Institution. Faraday subsequently wrote to Davy asking for a job as his assistant. Davy turned him down but in 1813 appointed him to the job of chemical assistant at the Royal Institution.
A year later, Faraday was invited to accompany Davy and his wife on an 18-month European tour, taking in France, Switzerland, Italy and Belgium and meeting many influential scientists. On their return in 1815, Faraday continued to work at the Royal Institution, helping with experiments for Davy and other scientists. In 1821 he published his work on electromagnetic rotation (the principle behind the electric motor). He was able to carry out little further research in the 1820s, busy as he was with other projects. In 1826, he founded the Royal Institution's Friday Evening Discourses and in the same year the Christmas Lectures, both of which continue to this day. He himself gave many lectures, establishing his reputation as the outstanding scientific lecturer of his time.
In 1831, Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction, the principle behind the electric transformer and generator. This discovery was crucial in allowing electricity to be transformed from a curiosity into a powerful new technology. During the remainder of the decade he worked on developing his ideas about electricity. He was partly responsible for coining many familiar words including 'electrode', 'cathode' and 'ion'. Faraday's scientific knowledge was harnessed for practical use through various official appointments, including scientific adviser to Trinity House (1836-1865) and Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich (1830-1851).
However, in the early 1840s, Faraday's health began to deteriorate, and he did less research. He died on 25 August 1867 at Hampton Court, where he had been given official lodgings in recognition of his contribution to science. He gave his name to the 'farad', originally describing a unit of electrical charge but later a unit of electrical capacitance." (visit link)
As for the crater, Wikipedia (visit link) informs us:
"Faraday is a lunar impact crater In the southern highlands of the Moon. It was named after British chemist and physicist Michael Faraday. It lies across the southeast rim of the larger crater Stofler, and the northwest rim of Faraday forms a wide rampart across the otherwise flat floor of Stofler. To the east of Faraday is Maurolycus.
The rim of this crater has been significantly overlain by subsequent impacts, most notably by an overlapping pair across the southwest rim and a crater across the northwest rim. There is a low central ridge running from the southwest to the northeast, nearly dividing the creator floor in half. The floor is nearly flat in the northwest half."
"Description: Elger
(IAU Directions) FARADAY - A large ring-plain, about 35 miles in diameter, overlapping the S.E. border of Stofler, its own rampart being overlapped in its turn by two smaller ring plains on the S.W., and by two smaller formations (one of which is square-shaped) on the N.E. The wall is broad and very massive on the W. and N.W., prominently terraced, and includes many brilliant little craters. Schmidt shows a ridge and several craters in the interior."
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