The Faraday Society was a British society
for the study of physical chemistry, founded
in 1903 and named in honour of Michael Faraday.
In 1980, it merged with several similar organisations,
including the Chemical Society, the Royal
Institute of Chemistry, and the Society for
Analytical Chemistry to form the Royal Society
of Chemistry 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 Royal Society of Chemistry
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 Royal Society of Chemistry.In
addition to its presidents, key figures at
the Faraday Society included George Stanley
Withers Marlow, Secretary and Editor of the
society from 1926–1948,
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 1978-1979.
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: 1905–1907
Sir William Henry Perkin: 1907
Sir Oliver Lodge: 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: 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: 1948–1950
Sir Charles Goodeve: 1950–1952
Sir Hugh Taylor: 1952–1953
Professor Ronald George Wreyford Norrish:
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: 1961–1962
Professor Alfred Rene Ubbelhode: 1963–1964
Sir Frederick Sydney Dainton: 1965–1966
Professor Cecil Edwin Bawn: 1967–1968
Professor Geoffrey Gee: 1969–1970
Professor John Wilfrid Linnett: 1971–1972
