James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
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Scottish physicist who unified electricity, magnetism, and light into one theory—Maxwell's equations basically rewrote how we understand the physical world. Also helped launch statistical mechanics before dying at 48.
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James Clerk Maxwell was a Scottish physicist and mathematician who was responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, which was the first theory to describe electricity, magnetism and light as different manifestations of the same phenomenon. Maxwell's equations for electromagnetism achieved the second great unification in physics, where the first one had been realised by Isaac Newton. Maxwell was also key in the creation of statistical mechanics.
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