List of things named after Michael Faraday explained

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• Faraday (unit), or just faraday – An obsolete unit of charge that has been superseded by the coulomb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 constant – The amount of electric charge per mole of electrons
      • Faraday dark space – The dark area in front of a cathode in a vacuum tube
• Homopolar generator, aka Faraday disc or Faraday wheel
  • • Faraday filter, aka
      • Faraday rotation (see Faraday effect)
      • Faraday flashlight, aka mechanically powered flashlight
• Faraday's ice pail experiment
  • • Faraday's laws of electrolysis
• Faraday's law of induction
  • Maxwell–Faraday equation
• Faraday paradox (electromagnetism)
• Faraday paradox (electrochemistry)
• Faraday rotator
• Faraday tensor, aka

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^[1]

Others

• – A Siemens AG cable ship launched in 1874
• – A Siemens AG cable ship launched in 1923
• Faraday (crater) – A lunar impact crater
• 37582 Faraday – A main-belt asteroid
• Faraday Future^[2] – electric car company
• Faradaya – A genus of flowering plants
  • Oxera splendida – A species of vine formerly known as Faradaya splendida^[3]

See also

• • Faraday (disambiguation)
• Faraday Prize (disambiguation)

Notes and References

1. Book: Reed, A. W. . Alexander Wyclif Reed

   . Alexander Wyclif Reed . Place Names of New Zealand . 2010 . Raupo . Rosedale, North Shore . 9780143204107 . Peter Dowling . 121.

2. §http://dujour.com/lifestyle/faraday-future-founders-electric-cars-interview-pictures/
3. Web site: Freeman . Jennifer . 21 April 2017 . Faradaya splendida . 10 November 2022 . State Library of Queensland.