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Hirshfeld (physics, U. of Massachusetts-Dartmouth) does not quibble with the storybook version of Faraday (1791-1867) as a poor, unschooled bookbinder's apprentice who through sheer gumption and timely luck surmounted adversity and class prejudice in 19th-century England to become the greatest experimental scientist of his time. He adds that he was one of the giants of science free of blinding preconceptions about nature, and thus endowed with a vision denied his contemporaries. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
