List of things named after Michael Faraday

Here is a list of things named in honour of scientist Michael Faraday:

Science

• Faraday (unit), or just faraday – An obsolete unit of charge that has been superseded by the coulomb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 – effect opposite to the Faraday effectPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
  • Faraday rotation (see Faraday effect)
• Faraday efficiency – Efficiency of charge transfer in an electrochemical reaction
  • Faraday-efficiency effect
• 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
  • Maxwell–Faraday equation
• 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 (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

Others

• CS Faraday (1874) – A Siemens AG cable ship launched in 1874
• CS Faraday (1923) – A Siemens AG cable ship launched in 1923
• Faraday (crater) – A lunar impact crater
• 37582 Faraday – A main-belt asteroid
• Faraday Future – electric car company
• Faradaya – A genus of flowering plants
  • Oxera splendida – A species of vine formerly known as Faradaya splendida

See also

• All pages with titles containing Faraday
• Faraday (disambiguation)
• Faraday Prize (disambiguation)

References

1. Michael Faraday
2. List of scientific laws named after people
3. List of eponymous laws
4. List of scientific units named after people
5. List of minor planets named after people
6. List of forms of electricity named after scientists
7. List of scientists whose names are used in physical constants
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