Faraday's discoveries were quickly (or preemptively) "mathified" by Ampere, Coulomb, Gauss, (and Heaviside!). Maxwell got the equations named after him for "un

Faraday's discoveries were quickly (or preemptively) "mathified" by Ampere, Coulomb, Gauss, (and Heaviside!). Maxwell got the equations named after him for "unifying" them, as it were, and on the basis of symmetry suggesting the displacement current term (which then leads to the wave equation, showing light is electromagnetic radiation).