FARADAY MICHAEL: (1791-1867) English Chemist & Physicist.

FARADAY MICHAEL: (1791-1867) English Chemist & Physicist.
A.L.S., M Faraday, one page, 8vo, Royal Institution, 3rd March 1853, to Dr. S. Muspratt. Faraday states that he cannot comply with his correspondent's note, explaining 'upon principle I never aid in the slightest degree to any such proposition as that which you make which has relation to myself' and adding 'I really know so little of matters concerning my own face that I could not tell you of my own knowledge whether there is any likeness of myself or not….' With blank integral leaf. VGJames Sheridan Muspratt (1821-1871) Irish Research Chemist whose most influential publication was Chemistry, Theoretical, Practical and Analytical as applied and relating to the Arts and Manufactures (2 vols., 1857-60).Faraday was one of the most influential scientists in history. It was by his research on the magnetic field around a conductor carrying a direct current that Faraday established the basis for the concept of the electromagnetic field in physics. As a chemist, Faraday discovered benzene and popularised terminology such as 'anode', 'cathode', 'electrode' and 'ion'. Albert Einstein kept a picture of Faraday on his study wall, alongside pictures of Isaac Newton and James Clerk Maxwell, and physicist Ernest Rutherford said of Faraday that he was 'one of the greatest scientific discoverers of all time'.