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'''Michael Faraday''' (1791 - 1867) was a famous [[English]] [[chemist]] and [[physicist]] whose discoveries in the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry greatly advanced those fields of study.
[[File:Michael Faraday sitting crop.jpg|thumbnail|right|250px|Michael Faraday]]
'''Michael Faraday''' (1791 - 1867) was a famous [[English]] [[chemist]] and [[physicist]] whose discoveries in the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry greatly advanced those fields of study.
==Religion==
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Farady was a devout Sandemanian Christian. Sandemanian Christianity is a [[Protestantism|Protestant]], [[Christianity|Christian]] sect that originated in [[Scotland]] in the 1730s. According to his biography, ''a strong sense of the unity of God and nature pervaded Faraday's life and work.'' <ref name="bio">[http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13117874.600-the-myth-of-michael-faraday-michael-faraday-was-not-justone-of-britains-greatest-experimenters-a-closer-look-at-the-man-and-hiswork-reveals-that-he-was-also-a-clever-theoretician-.html Biography of Michael Faraday]</ref> Faraday believed that God created the universe through laws, and therefore science was the process of discovering those laws.
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==See also==
*[[John Tyndall]]
==References==
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