Jim and Norman at Faraday's Apprentice Site

Jim Croll and Norman pointing to the sign that says Michael Faraday apprenticed here. This is in London, near Regent's Park. Taken in Sept 1998. Jim and Norman greatly admire Faraday because he was a genius in visual imagery and intuition. Faraday hardly knew any formal mathematics, yet his physical intuitions were so powerful that he could deduce the laws of electromagnetism from his clever experiments. He gave us the notions of flux, of induction, etc., that Maxwell later formulated into succinct axioms. It is probable that Faraday's intuitions were not equalled until Einstein came on the scene with his amazing gedanken (thought) experiments on relativity and gravitation.