The Faraday Society was a British society for the study of

physical chemistry Physical chemistry is the study of macroscopic and microscopic phenomena in chemical systems in terms of the principles, practices, and concepts of physics such as motion, energy, force, time, thermodynamics, quantum chemistry, statistica ...

, founded in 1903 and named in honour of

Michael Faraday Michael Faraday (; 22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was an English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic inducti ...

. In 1980, it merged with several similar organisations, including the Chemical Society, the

Royal Institute of Chemistry The Royal Institute of Chemistry was a British scientific organisation. Founded in 1877 as the Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland (ICGBI), its role was to focus on qualifications and the professional status of chemists, and its aim ...

, and the

Society for Analytical Chemistry A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Societi ...

to form the

Royal Society of Chemistry The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is a learned society (professional association) in the United Kingdom with the goal of "advancing the chemical sciences". It was formed in 1980 from the amalgamation of the Chemical Society, the Royal Inst ...

which is both a learned society and a professional body. At that time, the Faraday Division became one of six units within the Royal Society of Chemistry. The Faraday Society published '' Faraday Transactions'' from 1905 to 1971, when the

took over the publication. Of particular note were the conferences called '' Faraday Discussions'', which were published under the same name. The publication includes the discussion of the paper as well as the paper itself. At the meeting, more time is given to the discussion than to the author presenting the paper as the audience are given the papers prior to the meeting. These conferences continue to be run by the

. In addition to its presidents, key figures at the Faraday Society included George Stanley Withers Marlow, Secretary and Editor of the society from 1926 to 1948, and his successor Frederick Clifford Tompkins. Tompkins served as Editor until 1977, and as the President of the Faraday Division of the amalgamated Royal Society of Chemistry from 1978 to 1979. Prior to the amalgamation, Tompkins received valuable assistance from D. A. Young, who became Editor as of 1977.

Presidents

* Sir Joseph Swan: 1903–1904 *

Lord Kelvin William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, (26 June 182417 December 1907) was a British mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer born in Belfast. Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow for 53 years, he did important ...

: 1905–1907 * Sir

William Henry Perkin Sir William Henry Perkin (12 March 1838 – 14 July 1907) was a British chemist and entrepreneur best known for his serendipitous discovery of the first commercial synthetic organic dye, mauveine, made from aniline. Though he failed in trying ...

: 1907 * Sir

Oliver Lodge Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, (12 June 1851 – 22 August 1940) was a British physicist and writer involved in the development of, and holder of key patents for, radio. He identified electromagnetic radiation independent of Hertz's proof and at his ...

: 1908–1909 * Sir James Swinburne: 1909–1911 * Sir Richard T. Glazebrook: 1911–1913 * Sir Robert Abbott Hadfield: 1913–1920 * Professor Alfred W Porter: 1920–1922 * Sir Robert Robertson: 1922–1924 * Sir

Frederick George Donnan Frederick George Donnan CBE FRS FRSE (6 September 1870 – 16 December 1956) was a British-Irish physical chemist who is known for his work on membrane equilibria, and commemorated in the Donnan equilibrium describing ionic transport in cells. ...

: 1924–1926 * Professor Cecil Henry Desch: 1926–1928 * Professor Thomas Martin Lowry: 1928–1930 * Sir Robert Mond: 1930–1932 * Professor Nevil Vincent Sidgwick: 1932–1934 * William Rintoul: 1934–1936 * Professor Morris William Travers: 1936–1938 * Sir Eric Keightley Rideal: 1938–1945 * Professor William Edward Garner: 1945–1947 * Professor Arthur John Allmand: 1947–1948 * Sir

John Lennard-Jones Sir John Edward Lennard-Jones (27 October 1894 – 1 November 1954) was a British mathematician and professor of theoretical physics at the University of Bristol, and then of theoretical science at the University of Cambridge. He was an im ...

: 1948–1950 * Sir

Charles Goodeve Sir Charles Frederick Goodeve (21 February 1904 – 7 April 1980) was a Canadian chemist and pioneer in operations research. During World War II, he was instrumental in developing the "hedgehog" antisubmarine warfare weapon and the degaussing me ...

: 1950–1952 * Sir Hugh Taylor: 1952–1953 * Professor

Ronald George Wreyford Norrish Ronald George Wreyford Norrish FRS (9 November 1897 – 7 June 1978) was a British chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967. Education and early life Norrish was born in Cambridge and was educated at The Perse School and Emm ...

: 1953–1955 * Ronald Percy Bell: 1956–1957 * Sir Harry Work Melville: 1958 * Dr Edgar William Steacie: 1959 * Sir Harry Work Melville: 1960 * Sir

Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (19 June 1897 – 9 October 1967) was a British physical chemist and expert in chemical kinetics. His work in reaction mechanisms earned the 1956 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Education Born in London, his parents we ...

: 1961–1962 * Professor Alfred Rene Ubbelhode: 1963–1964 * Sir Frederick Sydney Dainton: 1965–1966 * Professor Cecil Bawn: 1967–1968 * Professor Geoffrey Gee: 1969–1970 * Professor John Wilfrid Linnett: 1971–1972

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