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Michael Faraday is one of the most remarkable and influential scientists in history, best known for his magnificent contributions to the development of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His major discoveries include electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism, and electrolysis, and all science students are familiar with “Faraday's Law”, the “Faraday effect”, and the “Faraday cage”. However, his contributions to chemistry have been somewhat overshadowed. Therefore, on the 200th anniversary of one of his major discoveries, benzene, it is fitting to dedicate this article to highlighting some of them, detailing the extraordinary work he carried out to obtain, identify, isolate, and characterize such a remarkable substance.
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