It amazes me that the same person who discovered benzene also discovered electromagnetic induction and Faraday’s laws of electrolysis.

> and Faraday’s laws of electrolysis

Wow, what are the chances he discovers something with a name like that?

And wasn't Faraday also a self-taught amateur whose maths was so poor that he couldn't even do trigonometry?

A beacon of hope for those of us without doctorates in physics out here...

He was lucky being born when there was still a lot of low hanging fruit lying around.