PBS | Einstein's Big Idea | Michael Faraday - Part 1

An excerpt from the popular PBS doucumentary 'Einsteins's Big Idea' showing the contribution of Farady in the making of teh world's most famous equation.

Michael Farady was an English chemist and physicist who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry.

[uservsjshgs]

He used to work in a bookbinding shop and during day time he work and at night he read all those books... He wrote a book of 300 pages for his idol Humphrey Davy... Then Davy got impressed and after in an accident Davy lost his eyesight then He made Faraday his assistant.. This was his turning Faraday said that light is electromagnetic wave but nobody believed him and mocked him and called him stupid and because there was lack of advance mathematics Faraday failed to prove himself but then James Maxwell came with a piece of paper with all the correct equation that proved Faraday's theory.... ☺

[Apostolia-ioqy]

Michael Faraday...a very clever, beautiful, and kind person...

[Galactorate]

Davy was a Cornishman who would have spoken with a yokel-like accent; Faraday was a Londoner who would have sounded like a Cockney. Neither would have sounded like they do in this film although Davy certainly rose in society and married well

For the American ear, Davy was rather like someone from Tennessee and Faraday from the Bronx

[MultiBlackjack]

we wouldn't be watching this if it wasn't for Michael Faraday

[AxmedBahjad]

Poor and hungry man made himself extraordinary! So can you! Work, study on your own otherwise school will kill your creativity.

[khesehangchemjong]

Humility and moving forward natures of scientists are unsung beauty.
They might get angry but still take no action when provoked but still be very very very careful because they might not share their discoveries and proceed inventions.

[NicholasKevinJoseph]

I love how Faraday was chrisitian and believed in science. :D

[martolia]

Michael farady, father of modern world

[exenrontexas]

Michael Faraday was a Christian driven by his desire to understand how God arranged the universe, logically and scientifically.

[PakistanIcecream]

Michael Faraday was a great genius par excellence.

[aditya]

Religion gets a bad rep, but you'd be surprised how many of the great scientists were very religious: Newton, Einstein, Galileo, Faraday, and so on. However, it's probably fair to say that the religion they believed in was not the organized religion spouted by holy books, but a deeper spiritual belief in nature and the beauty of science.

[Lexyvil]

I watched this on a plane from Texas to Canada, on a trip back home, and this made me realize how much that discovery revolutionized motors in general and every electrical appliances we see today.

[garbasulyman]

May God bless those that compiled the story.

It just solved a problem for me and aided my research

[RexGalilae]

0:30
What about the works of Laplace, Lagrange, Euler and Hamilton in creating analytical mechanics?

[msvalkyrie]

Really clunking script ! '. Morning Faraday ! " Morning
Sir Humphrey ..!,

[Quantum_Quester]

@3:43 Lord help me to think only of others, to be of use to mankind, help me be part of the great circle that is your work and love. Lord I am your servant.

[PBSmithy]

Didn't tip-toe around anything. People's work is influenced by their lives. This is self-evident. I repeat, the fact that you don't like it bespeaks your own bias against religion. If you were solely interested in Faraday's scientific contribution you wouldn't be watching a video about his life on here, you'd be reading a dry, technical book detailing his scientific work instead. The false claim you made was ""every one of these men who actually believed in a god lived before Darwin".

[rishinigam]

Yes faraday law According to which electricity producing Magnetic field because the Magnetic compass is getting deflected when it is put nearby current carrying conductor which can only be when that current element produces Magnetic field that is by right hand thumb rule wow great scientist

[axnbjsbdudbydvydubu]

the word "science" is a man made word to describe the laws of universe created by God which are also the boundaries of our minds and not vice-versa. God doesn't need generals of science, we human need science which doesn't contradict these laws, else it becomes chaos

[ajsa]

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