Michael Faraday

Born in Newington Burts[2], near London, the

son of a blacksmith, Faraday spent his
childhood in poverty. He followed his father
to London at the age of 12 to avoid poverty,
and has since worked as a clerk at a
bookbinding shop in a bookstore. Whenever
he had time while working as a clerk, he read
books related to science that he had bound,
and it is said that this was when he became
interested in science. For this reason, it is said
that he tried chemical experiments while
listening to general lectures.

Faraday's employer boasted about this to his

customers during his daily life. Meanwhile,
one of the clients' fathers heard the news,
and when he was 19 years old, he received a
lecture ticket for Humphrey Davy, the greatest
scientist of the time. He later bound a
notebook he recorded and sent it to Davy,
which caught Davy's eye. Davy injured his eye
during an experiment and needed an assistant
to help him during treatment [3], and Davy
selected Faraday to be his research assistant.

Humphrey Davy himself was competent

enough to be called the greatest scientist of
his time. [4] He also made significant
achievements, such as proving that heat is a
type of energy, conducting electrolysis
experiments, and discovering alkali metals.
However, because his student is a genius far
superior to himself, many people believe that
discovering Faraday is his greatest
achievement than his other achievements.
Even at that time, many people held his
student high, so he did not like Faraday.
When he touched Faraday's thesis, he added
a phrase about his contribution, and when he
became a member of the Royal Society, he
opposed it, and in the vote to decide whether
to join Faraday, only one vote was against. In
the documentary Cosmos, Davy, who was
jealous of this, ordered Faraday to be
demoted to study glass rather than a
specialty, which Faraday did not produce
much success in this case, but he found that
he used the failed glass experiment in his
later years to prove the wave relationship
between electromagnetic and light. Oh! In the
18th volume of the series, Davey's motor was
not working, but when Faraday's motor was
running, jealous Davey claimed that Faraday
had stolen his motor, but Faraday was famous
for being honest, so no one was interested in
his claim.

From this point on, Faraday began his

research while assisting Davy's experiment. He
was only 22 years old in 1813. He became a
member of the Royal Society in 1824 and
head of the Royal Laboratory the following
year. At the time, it was very difficult to climb
to this position in the field of science, which
was said to be the exclusive property of the
rich bourgeoisie in England, where the wind
of the industrial revolution blew.

In his middle age, he suffered from memory

loss and depression, and in Cosmos, he was
severely ill, so Faraday's wife even added a
postscript to his letter, but he did not stop
studying until later in life. Born as the child of
a poor low-class worker in a social class
system, he did not receive a proper education,
but he became self-taught, took the
opportunity, and lived a life of human praise
that did not give up until the end, keeping a
gentle personality despite the pain of checks
and chronic diseases.

Queen Victoria personally suggested that she

stay in business at Westminster Cemetery by
the time of her death after leaving various
achievements to be described below, but she
refused. He also declined to be knighted, and
the famous saying he left at that time was, "I
just want to remain Faraday." After his death,
he was buried at Highgate Cemetery in
London. There were also many other offers of
benefits in his life, but Faraday rejected most
of them. Faraday also said, "I think if you give
a prize for intellectual effort, it will be of less
value." This humble aspect of Faraday aroused
the respect of many people, and Faraday is
still talked about as one of the most loved
scientists of Britain, along with Isaac Newton,
James Clerk Maxwell, and Charles Darwin.