List of things named after Michael Faraday

Here is a list of things named in scientist Michael Faraday's honour:

1 Science
2 Places
3 Others
4 See also

Science

Faraday (unit), faraday, an obsolete unit of charge that has been superseded by the coulomb
farad, SI unit of capacitance
Faraday cage
Faraday constant, the amount of electric charge per mole of electrons
Faraday cup
Faraday effect
Faraday-efficiency effect
Faraday Flashlight
Faraday's laws of electrolysis
Faraday's law of induction
Faraday paradox
Faraday rotation, see Faraday effect
Faraday rotator
Faraday tensor
Faraday wave
Faraday wheel

Places

Faraday building, the first telephone exchange to open in London, later the first International Switching Centre
Faraday Building (Manchester)
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, named after Michael Faraday
Faraday Dam, a dam on the Clackamas River in the U.S. state of Oregon

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 crater
37582 Faraday, a main-belt asteroid

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List of things named after Michael Faraday