R. Kipling & M. Faraday
His
Jungle Books have been made into several movies; the first was made by producer Alexander
Korda, and others by the Walt Disney Company. A number of his poems were set to music by
Percy Grainger. A series of short films based on some of his stories was broadcast by the BBC in
1964.
Michael Faraday was an English chemist and physicist, who contributed to the fields of
electromagnetism and electrochemistry. He was born on 22 September 1791 in Newington Butts,
now part of the London Borough of Southwark; but then a suburban part of Surrey, one mile south
of London Bridge. Faraday studied the magnetic field around a conductor carrying a DC electric
current, and established the basis for the electromagnetic field concept in physics. He discovered
electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism, and laws of electrolysis. He established that
magnetism could affect rays of light and that there was an underlying relationship between the
two phenomena