"In a letter to Ampère dated 3 September 1822, Faraday lamented, "I am unfortunate in a want of mathematical knowledge and the power of entering with facility into abstract reasoning, I am obliged to feel my way by facts closely placed together." ... Faraday's "facts" were his experiments, both published and unpublished. During a period of 23 years, 1831–54, he compiled the results of those experiments into three volumes, called Experimental Researches in Electricity ... A most remarkable thing is that there was not a single formula in this monumental compilation, which showed that Faraday was feeling his way, guided only by geometric intuition without any precise algebraic formulation."
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Yang Chen-Ning
Yang Chen-Ning (; pinyin: Yang Zhènníng; 1 October 1922 – 18 October 2025), was a Chinese theoretical physicist, known for his research on parity violation in weak interactions, Yang–Mills theory, and the Yang–Baxter equation. He shared the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics with Tsung-Dao Lee.
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