Michael Faraday: Physics and faith by Colin Russell, Oxford University Press,
$22, ISBN 0195117638
IT’S the new Mission: Impossible. Colin Russell has to entertain and inspire
teenage science students with a compelling tale about the life of Michael
Faraday. You have to feel a bit sorry for him.
Faraday, you see, was a bit dull. He went to church regularly, had a steady,
loving marriage, was scrupulously fair to all. He had no thought for wealth, and
turned down a knighthood because he wanted to remain “plain Michael Faraday”.
Need I go on? There are occasional touches of colour—he was…
