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Born June 9, 1911 • South Bend • Indiana
Died January 2, 2005 (aged 93) • New York City • New York
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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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