List of things named after Michael Faraday
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Here is a list of things named in honour of scientist Michael Faraday:
- Faraday (unit), or just faraday – An obsolete unit of charge that has been superseded by the coulomb
- farad, SI unit of capacitance
- Faraday balance – Device for measuring magnetism of an object
- Faraday cage – Enclosure of conductive mesh used to block electric fields
- Faraday constant – The amount of electric charge per mole of electrons
- Faraday cup – Charged particle catcher
- Faraday cup electrometer – Form of an electrical aerosol instrument used in aerosol studies
- Faraday dark space – The dark area in front of a cathode in a vacuum tube
- Homopolar generator, aka Faraday disc or Faraday wheel
- Faraday effect – Physical magneto-optical phenomenon
- Faraday filter, aka atomic line filter – Optical band-pass filter used in the physical sciences
- Inverse Faraday effect – Magnetization by polarized light
- Faraday rotation (see Faraday effect)
- Faraday efficiency – Efficiency of charge transfer in an electrochemical reaction
- Faraday-efficiency effect – Cause of data interpretation errors in electrochemistry
- Faraday flashlight, aka mechanically powered flashlight
- Faraday's ice pail experiment
- Faraday Institute for Science and Religion – Research institute in the UK
- The Faraday Institution – Nonprofit organization in Didcot, United Kingdom
- Faraday's laws of electrolysis
- Faraday's law of induction
- Faraday paradox (electromagnetism)
- Faraday paradox (electrochemistry)
- Faraday rotator
- Faraday tensor, aka electromagnetic tensor – Mathematical object that describes the electromagnetic field in spacetime
- Electromagnetic tensor – Mathematical object that describes the electromagnetic field in spacetime
- Faraday wave – Ripples on liquid within a vibrating receptacle
Places
- Faraday building – The first telephone exchange to open in London, later the first International Switching Centre
- Faraday Building, Manchester
- The Faraday lecture theatre inside the Faraday Building at Lancaster University in Lancashire, England
- Faraday Research Station – A former British research station in Antarctica, now called Vernadsky Research Base and operated by Ukraine
- Faraday Road – A road in Penang, Malaysia
- Faraday (ward) – An electoral ward in the London Borough of Southwark
- Faraday Dam – A dam on the Clackamas River in the U.S. state of Oregon
- Faraday House – One of the buildings at the headquarters of Vodafone, a telecommunications company in Newbury, Berkshire
- Mount Faraday in New Zealand's Paparoa Range[1]