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Michael Faraday

1791–1867 · United Kingdom · Born in the 1700s

Discovered benzene and formulated the laws of electrolysis, laying foundations of electrochemistry.

Fields

Organic chemistry Physical chemistry

Related topics

Electrolysis, corrosion and metal protection

Using electricity to force a reaction to run backwards, and the same electrochemistry behind rust.

Chemists in the same field

Friedrich Wöhler (1800)Justus von Liebig (1803)Humphry Davy (1778)Amedeo Avogadro (1776)John Dalton (1766)Louis Pasteur (1822)