- English physicist and chemist: discoverer of electromagnetic induction.
- a unit of electricity used in electrolysis, equal to 96,500 coulombs.
- a quantity of electricity, used in electrochemical calculations, equivalent to unit amount of substance of electrons. It is equal to the product of the Avogadro number and the charge on the electron and has the value 96 487 coulombs per mole
- Michael. 1791–1867, English physicist and chemist who discovered electromagnetic induction, leading to the invention of the dynamo. He also carried out research into the principles of electrolysis