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Teachers: Michael Faraday

14 January 2025

“If one wanted a single word to describe Faraday’s character, it would be ‘obsessive.’ Everything he did was incredibly meticulous, in all sorts of ways,” said Professor Frank James (UCL Science and Technology Studies), on the 19th century physicist Michael Faraday.

Listen: BBC Radio 4 “Human Intelligence” (from 2 mins 5 secs)