IN my discourse on “Tyndall's Experiments on Magne-crystallic Action”, delivered at the Royal Institution on Friday, Jan. 21, 1927, and published as a supplement to NATURE of May 7 of that year, I ...

If you’re a fan of science, and especially science history, no trip to London is complete without visiting the Royal Institution, browsing the extensive collection of artifacts housed in the Faraday ...

Michael Faraday, a British scientist who was credited with the discovery of electromagnetic induction, the principle behind the electric transformer and generator—was born September 22, 1791, in the ...

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