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Born December 30, 1850 • Liverpool • England
Died July 30, 1913 (aged 62) • Isle of Wight

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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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