Editing Michael Faraday (section)

==Commemorations==
{{See also|List of things named after Michael Faraday}}
[[File:Statue of Michael Faraday, Savoy Place.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|Statue of Faraday in [[Savoy Place]], London. Sculptor [[John Henry Foley]].]]

A statue of Michael Faraday stands in [[Savoy Place]], London, outside the [[Institution of Engineering and Technology]]. The [[Michael Faraday Memorial|Faraday Memorial]], designed by [[brutalist]] architect [[Rodney Gordon]] and completed in 1961, is at the [[Elephant & Castle]] gyratory system, near Faraday's birthplace at [[Newington Butts]], London. Faraday School is located on [[Trinity Buoy Wharf]] where his workshop still stands above the Chain and Buoy Store, next to London's only lighthouse.<ref>Fisher, Stuart (2012). ''Rivers of Britain: Estuaries, tideways, havens, lochs, firths and kyles''. [[A&C Black]]. {{ISBN|1-4081-5583-4}}. p. 231.</ref> Faraday Gardens is a small park in [[Walworth]], London, not far from his birthplace at Newington Butts. It lies within the local council ward of Faraday in the [[London Borough of Southwark]]. Michael Faraday Primary school is situated on the [[Aylesbury Estate]] in [[Walworth]].<ref>[http://michaelfaradayschool.co.uk/about_us/ Michael Faraday Primary School] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329005025/http://michaelfaradayschool.co.uk/about_us/ |date=29 March 2012 }}. michaelfaradayschool.co.uk</ref>

A building at [[London South Bank University]], which houses the institute's electrical engineering departments is named the Faraday Wing, due to its proximity to Faraday's birthplace in [[Newington Butts]]. A hall at [[Loughborough University]] was named after Faraday in 1960. Near the entrance to its dining hall is a bronze casting, which depicts the symbol of an electrical [[transformer]], and inside there hangs a portrait, both in Faraday's honour. An eight-storey 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]]. The former UK Faraday Station in [[Antarctica]] was named after him.<ref>{{Cite web|title=History of Faraday (Station F)|url=https://www.bas.ac.uk/about/about-bas/history/british-research-stations-and-refuges/faraday-f/|access-date=23 February 2023|website=British Antarctic Survey|language=en-GB}}</ref>

{{quote box|width=27%|align=left|quote=Without such freedom there would have been no [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]], no [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|Goethe]], no [[Isaac Newton|Newton]], no Faraday, no [[Louis Pasteur|Pasteur]] and no [[Joseph Lister|Lister]].|source=—[[Albert Einstein]]'s speech on intellectual freedom at the [[Royal Albert Hall]], London having fled Nazi Germany, 3 October 1933<ref>{{cite news|title=3 October 1933 – Albert Einstein presents his final speech given in Europe, at the Royal Albert Hall|url=https://www.royalalberthall.com/about-the-hall/news/2013/october/3-october-1933-albert-einstein-speaks-at-the-hall/|publisher=Royal Albert Hall|date=15 October 2017}}</ref>}}
Streets named for Faraday can be found in many British cities (e.g., London, [[Glenrothes]], [[Swindon]], [[Basingstoke]], [[Nottingham]], [[Whitby]], [[Kirkby]], [[Crawley]], [[Newbury, Berkshire|Newbury]], [[Swansea]], [[Aylesbury]] and [[Stevenage]]) as well as in France (Paris), Germany ([[Berlin]]-[[Dahlem (Berlin)|Dahlem]], [[Hermsdorf, Thuringia|Hermsdorf]]), Canada ([[Quebec City]], Quebec; [[Deep River, Ontario|Deep River]], Ontario; Ottawa, Ontario), the United States ([[The Bronx]], New York and [[Reston, Virginia|Reston]], Virginia), Australia ([[Carlton, Victoria|Carlton]], Victoria), and New Zealand ([[Hawke's Bay Region|Hawke's Bay]]).<ref>McNamara, John (1991). ''History in Asphalt''. Harrison, NY: Harbor Hill Books. p. 99. ISBN 0-941980-15-4.</ref><ref>{{cite book| url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/clarke-sir-andrew-3219/text4851|title=Sir Andrew Clarke (1824–1902)|publisher=[[Australian Dictionary of Biography]]| access-date=28 March 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=The Faraday Centre |url=https://www.faradaycentre.org.nz/about-us/history/ |access-date=8 September 2020 |agency=Faradaycentre.org}}</ref>

[[File:MICHAEL FARADAY MAN OF SCIENCE. APPRENTICE HERE. B.1791D.1867.jpg|thumb|upright|Plaque erected in 1876 by the [[Royal Society of Arts]] in Marylebone, London]]
A [[Royal Society of Arts]] [[blue plaque]], unveiled in 1876, commemorates Faraday at 48 Blandford Street in London's Marylebone district.<ref name='EngHet'>{{cite web| url=http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/discover/blue-plaques/search/faraday-michael-1791-1867|title=Faraday, Michael (1791–1867)|publisher=[[English Heritage]]| access-date=23 October 2012}}</ref> From 1991 until 2001, Faraday's picture featured on the reverse of Series E £20 [[Banknotes of the pound sterling|banknotes]] issued by the [[Bank of England note issues|Bank of England]]. He was portrayed conducting a lecture at the Royal Institution with the magneto-electric spark apparatus.<ref name="bankofengland">{{Cite web|url=http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/denom_guide/index.htm|title=Withdrawn banknotes reference guide|publisher=[[Bank of England]]|access-date=17 October 2008|archive-date=10 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610131654/http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/denom_guide/index.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2002, Faraday was ranked number 22 in the [[BBC]]'s list of the [[100 Greatest Britons]] following a UK-wide vote.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/greatbritons/list.shtml/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021204214727/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/greatbritons/list.shtml/|archive-date=4 December 2002|title=BBC – Great Britons – Top 100|website=[[Internet Archive]]|access-date=19 July 2017}}</ref>

Faraday has been commemorated on postage stamps issued by the [[Royal Mail]]. In 1991, as a pioneer of electricity he featured in their [[Great Britain commemorative stamps 1990–1999|Scientific Achievements]] issue along with pioneers in three other fields ([[Charles Babbage]] (computing), [[Frank Whittle]] (jet engine) and [[Robert Watson-Watt]] (radar)).<ref>{{cite news |title='Scientific achievements' postage stamps |url=https://collection.maas.museum/object/149421 |access-date=30 September 2022 |publisher=Museum of Applied Sciences collection}}</ref> In 1999, under the title "Faraday's Electricity", he featured in their [[Great Britain commemorative stamps 1990–1999|World Changers]] issue along with [[Charles Darwin]], [[Edward Jenner]] and [[Alan Turing]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Issue: World Changers (21.09.1999) |url=https://www.bfdc.co.uk/1999/world_changers/page1.html |access-date=30 September 2022 |work=BFDC}}</ref>

The [[Faraday Institute for Science and Religion]] derives its name from the scientist, who saw his faith as integral to his scientific research. The logo of the institute is also based on Faraday's discoveries. It was created in 2006 by a $2,000,000 [[Grant (money)|grant]] from the [[John Templeton Foundation]] to carry out academic research, to foster understanding of the interaction between science and religion, and to engage public understanding in both these subject areas.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.templeton.org/what-we-fund/grants/faraday-institute-for-science-and-religion-interdisciplinary-research-and-projec|title=Faraday Institute for Science and Religion: Interdisciplinary Research and Projects|website=templeton.org|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111173539/http://www.templeton.org/what-we-fund/grants/faraday-institute-for-science-and-religion-interdisciplinary-research-and-projec|archive-date=11 January 2012}}</ref><ref>[http://www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/faraday/Institute.php About us] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091213214256/http://www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/faraday/Institute.php |date=13 December 2009 }}, Faraday Institute</ref>

[[The Faraday Institution]], an independent energy storage research institute established in 2017, also derives its name from Michael Faraday.<ref name="Institution"/> The organisation serves as the UK's primary research programme to advance battery science and technology, education, public engagement and market research.<ref name="Institution">{{cite web |title=The Faraday Institution |url=https://faraday.ac.uk/ |publisher=The Faraday Institution|access-date=25 December 2020}}</ref>

Faraday's life and contributions to electromagnetics was the principal topic of the tenth episode, titled "[[The Electric Boy]]", of the 2014 American science documentary series, ''[[Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey]]'', which was broadcast on [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] and the [[National Geographic Channel]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Overbye |first=Dennis |author-link=Dennis Overbye |title=A Successor to Sagan Reboots 'Cosmos' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/04/science/space/a-successor-to-sagan-reboots-cosmos.html |date=4 March 2014 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=17 June 2014 }}</ref>

The writer [[Aldous Huxley]] wrote about Faraday in an essay entitled, ''A Night in Pietramala'': "He is always the natural philosopher. To discover truth is his sole aim and interest&nbsp;... even if I could be Shakespeare, I think I should still choose to be Faraday."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Huxley |first1=Aldous |title=A Night in Pietramala. In: Along the Road: Notes and Essays of a Tourist |date=1925 |publisher=George H. Doran |location=New York}}</ref> Calling Faraday her "hero", in a speech to the Royal Society, [[Margaret Thatcher]] declared: "The value of his work must be higher than the capitalisation of all the shares on the Stock Exchange!" She borrowed his bust from the Royal Institution and had it placed in the hall of [[10 Downing Street]].<ref name="Field"/>