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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Science
Donna Ferguson

Unearthed notebooks shed light on Victorian genius who inspired Einstein

Michael Faraday
Faraday, self-taught and the son of a blacksmith, discovered the laws of electrolysis and electromagnetic induction. Photograph: Hulton Deutsch/Corbis/Getty Images

He was a self-educated genius whose groundbreaking discoveries in the fields of physics and chemistry electrified the world of science and laid the foundations for Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity nearly a century later.

Now, the little-known notebooks of the Victorian scientist Michael Faraday have been unearthed from the archive of the Royal Institution and are to be digitised and made permanently accessible online for the first time.

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