William Whewell biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of William Whewell

Author Name:

William Whewell

Born As:

William Whewell

Other Names:

William Whewell

Born:

24 May 1794

Died:

6 Mar 1866




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Scientist, polymath, Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian and historian of science                          
                          
                          
                          
William Whewell came up with the term scientist. Scientists  had previously been known as "natural philosophers" or "men of science".

William Whewell also contributed the terms physicist, consilience, catastrophism, and uniformitarianism.

William Whewell suggested the terms anode and cathode to Michael Faraday; this terminology persists in electrical technology to this day.