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• Faraday (unit), or just faraday – An obsolete unit of charge that has been superseded by the coulomb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 – Magnetization by polarized light
  • Faraday rotation (see Faraday effect)
• Faraday efficiency – Efficiency of charge transfer in an electrochemical reaction
  • Faraday-efficiency effect – Cause of data interpretation errors in electrochemistry
• 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^[1]

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^[2] – electric car company
• Faradaya – A genus of flowering plants
  • Oxera splendida – A species of vine formerly known as Faradaya splendida^[3]

See also

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