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Faraday Building
The Faraday Building is a former General Post Office telephone exchange in the City of London, named after Michael Faraday and opened as the international telephone exchange in 1933.
Faraday cage
A Faraday cage, also called a Faraday shield, is an enclosure of conductive material that blocks external electric fields and electromagnetic waves, used in MRI rooms and aircraft.
Faraday constant
The Faraday constant (F), named for Michael Faraday, is the electric charge of one mole of electrons, about 96,485 C/mol, exact since the 2019 SI redefinition.
Faraday cup
A Faraday cup, also called a Faraday plate, measures charged particle beam intensity by stopping the beam on a metal collector and reading the deposited charge.
Faraday effect
The Faraday effect, or Faraday rotation, is the magnetic rotation of light's polarization, discovered by Michael Faraday in 1845 and used today in optical isolators.
Faraday Future
Faraday Future is a California electric vehicle and robotics company founded by Jia Yueting in 2014, known for its long-delayed $309,000 FF 91 electric SUV.
Faraday Medal
The Faraday Medal is the premier award of Britain's Institution of Engineering and Technology, honoring major achievements in engineering; first awarded in 1922 to Oliver Heaviside.
Faraday paradox
The Faraday paradox is the puzzle that a conducting disk spinning in a static magnetic field develops an emf even though the flux through it never changes.
Faraday Pharmaceuticals
Faraday Pharmaceuticals, originally filed as Scion Pharmaceuticals, was a Seattle clinical-stage biotech that raised over $115 million to develop FDY-5301 for heart attack injury before winding down in 2025.
Faraday rotator
A Faraday rotator is a magneto-optical component that rotates the polarization of light non-reciprocally, serving as the key element in optical isolators and circulators that protect lasers from back reflections in optical networks.
Faraday Technology
Faraday Technology is a Taiwanese fabless ASIC design service and silicon IP provider, founded in 1993 as a former UMC division and listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange under ticker 3035.
Faraday wave
A Faraday wave is a standing wave forming on a liquid surface when its container is vibrated vertically, first described by Michael Faraday in 1831.
Faraday's law of induction
Faraday's law of induction is the physical law that a changing magnetic flux through a circuit induces an electromotive force, discovered by Michael Faraday in London in 1831.
Faraday's laws of electrolysis
Faraday's laws of electrolysis are two quantitative rules announced by Michael Faraday in 1834: the mass deposited at an electrode is proportional to the charge passed.
Faradion
Faradion Limited is a British sodium-ion battery technology company founded in Sheffield, England, in 2011, described as the first non-aqueous Na-ion company and acquired by Reliance Industries in a 2021 deal.
Farafina
Farafina is a percussion and balafon group from Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, founded by Mahama Konaté and known through collaborations with the Rolling Stones and Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Farage
Farage (CVCL_3302, ATCC CRL-2630) is a human EBV-positive B lymphocyte cancer cell line established in 1990 from a 70-year-old woman with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma; it produces no immunoglobulin and is a PMBL-related research model.
Farah (actress)
Farah Naaz (फरहा नाज़), also Farha Naaz Hashmi, Indian Bollywood actress born 1968 in Hyderabad; debuted in Yash Raj's Faasle (1985), sister of Tabu, known for Naseeb Apna Apna, Yateem, Muqabla, and Hulchul.
Farah Antun
Farah Antun (فرح أنطون) was a Lebanese journalist, novelist, and secularist thinker of the Arab Nahda who founded the journal al-Jami'a in Alexandria in 1899.
Farah Bala Hisar
Farah Bala Hisar is an archaeological site in Farah province, western Afghanistan, a large fortified mud enclosure holding remains from several periods, with a castle as the latest phase.
Farah Constructions Pty Ltd v Say-Dee Pty Ltd
Farah Constructions Pty Ltd v Say-Dee Pty Ltd [2007] HCA 22, (2007) 230 CLR 89: unanimous High Court of Australia decision on fiduciary disclosure, Barnes v Addy liability, unjust enrichment, indefeasibility, and precedent comity among Australian intermediate appellate courts.
Farah Khan
Farah Khan Kunder (फराह खान), born 1965 in Mumbai, is an Indian film director, choreographer, producer and actress of Hindi cinema, known for Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar's choreography, Filmfare and National Film Awards, and directing Main Hoon Na and Om Shanti Om.
Farah Pahlavi (فرح پهلوی)
Farah Pahlavi (فرح پهلوی), born Farah Diba in Tehran in 1938, was the last shahbanou (empress) of Iran, wife of Mohammad Reza Shah from 1959 to 1979, first crowned Iranian empress, patron of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, and an exile in Paris since 1979.
Farah Rumy
Farah Rumy is a Swiss Social Democratic politician from Grenchen who joined the National Council in 2023, became its Second Vice-President in 2025, and works as a nursing professional.
Farah Vallis
Farah Vallis is a 76.37 km IAU-named valley on Mars near Gale crater, a V-shaped valley network channel a few km wide and about 100 m deep that incises Gale's southwest rim.
Farah Zeynep Abdullah
Farah Zeynep Abdullah (born 1989, Istanbul) is a Turkish actress and singer known for Öyle Bir Geçer Zaman ki, Kelebeğin Rüyası (Turkey's Oscar submission), Unutursam Fısılda, and the record-breaking 2022 biopic Bergen.
Farahat's Republic
Farahat's Republic (Jumhuriyat Farahat) is a 1956 short story by the Egyptian writer Yusuf Idris, set in a Cairo police station at night between 1945 and 1952.
Farahe Maloof
Farahe Maloof is an endocrinologist and thyroid researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, publishing from 1951 on radioactive iodine therapy and thyrotropin-secreting pituitary tumors.
Farahnaz Pahlavi (فرحناز پهلوی)
Farahnaz Pahlavi (فرحناز پهلوی), born 1963 in Tehran, is a daughter of Iran's last Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Empress Farah; educated in social work, she lives in exile and keeps a private, low-profile life.
Faraizi movement
The Faraizi movement (ফরায়েজি) was a Muslim reform and peasant movement in nineteenth-century Bengal, founded by Haji Shariatullah in 1818 and led by his son Dudu Miyan.