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20a. Genius Explained [Darwin, Stephenson & Faraday] by Michael Howe

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What Was Stevenson Faraday?

Michael Faraday was an important chemist and physicist who made huge perhaps the biggest impact in the field of electricity and magnetism. He did science mainly in a qualitative way so he didn't learn very much maths from his books. George Stevenson was born at the right time to do things hands on rather than 20 or 30 years later it would have been more theoretical. None of them were geniuses out of nowhere nobody becomes a genius out of nowhere everybody has a period of training if they become great, that period lasts a very long time.

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