Michael Faraday: Prince of lecturers in Victorian England
Abstract
In this note, we focus on Faraday as a lecturer/teacher. We trace his development as a lecturer/teacher and highlight his approaches in popular-science lecturing and in teaching chemistry to military cadets. We appraise his success and conclude with an account of his poignant last lecture.
- Publication:
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The Physics Teacher
- Pub Date:
- January 2001
- DOI:
- 10.1119/1.1343427
- Bibcode:
- 2001PhTea..39...32L
- Keywords:
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- 01.65.+g;
- 01.60.+q;
- History of science;
- Biographies tributes personal notes and obituaries