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Born December 3, 1838 • New York City • New York
Died October 28, 1916 (aged 77) • Chevy Chase • Maryland
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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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