Born in Yorkshire in 1791, Michael Faraday was one of 10 children. Apprenticed to a bookbinder, Faraday become an assistant to the great chemist Sir Humphry Davy. After hearing some of Davy’s lectures in London, he sent him a bound copy of some notes he had made and was taken on.
After much work on electricity, Faraday turned his attention to electrolysis. He produced an explanation of what happens when we use an electric current to split up a chemical compound. Not only did Faraday explain what happens, he also introduced the words we still use today-electrolysis, electrolyte and electrode.
Many people think that Antoine Lavoisier was the father of modern chemistry. Antoine Lavoisier lived in France between 1743 and 1794. His experiments were some of the first proper chemical experiments involving careful measurements. For example, in chemical reactions he carefully weighed reactants and products. Out of this, Lavoisier showed that the quantity of matter is the same at the end as at the beginning of every chemical reaction.
This two ancient scientist are case study on principal objective of Competency Based Curriculum, which seeks to promote critical thinking, problem solving, and creativity over memorization for exam performance.