List of things named after Michael Faraday
From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Here is a list of things named in scientist Michael Faraday's honour:
Contents
Science
- Faraday (unit), faraday, an obsolete unit of charge that has been superseded by the coulomb
- farad, SI unit of capacitance
- Faraday cage
- Faraday constant, the amount of electric charge per mole of electrons
- Faraday cup
- Faraday effect
- Faraday efficiency
- Faraday Flashlight
- Faraday's laws of electrolysis
- Faraday's law of induction
- Faraday paradox
- Faraday rotation, see Faraday effect
- Faraday rotator
- Faraday tensor
- Faraday wave
- Faraday wheel
Places
- Faraday building, the first telephone exchange to open in London, later the first International Switching Centre
- Faraday Building (Manchester)
- 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, named after Michael Faraday
- Faraday Dam, a dam on the Clackamas River in the U.S. state of Oregon
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 crater
- 37582 Faraday, a main-belt asteroid
- Faraday Future,[1] electric car company
