Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

In Alice Jenkins. An eight-story building at the University of Edinburgh's science & engineering campus is named for Faraday as is a recently built hall of accommodation at Brunel University the main engineering building at Swansea University and the instructional and experimental physics building at Northern Illinois University. Diary.

As a chemist Faraday discovered benzene investigated the clathrate hydrate of chlorine invented an early form of the Bunsen burner and the system of oxidation numbers and popularised terminology such as anode cathode electrode and ion. It was by his research on the magnetic field around a conductor carrying a direct current that Faraday establiMichael Faradayd the basis for the concept of the electromagnetic field in physics.