"...we try to illustrate in a concise way the two main “wonders” of Faraday’s life: that the son of a poor blacksmith in the Victorian age was able to become the director the Royal Institution and member of the Royal Society, still keeping a honest and “virtuous” moral conduct, and that Faraday’s approach to many topics, but mainly to electrochemistry and electrodynamics, has paved the way to the modern (atomistic and field-based) view of physics, only relying on experiments and intuition."

Bagnoli, F. and Livi, R. (2018) “Michael Faraday: a virtuous life dedicated to science”, Substantia, 2(1), pp. 121–134. doi: https://doi.org/10.13128/Substantia-45 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Science #HistSci #Biography #Chemistry #Physics #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @chemistry @physics