Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
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He showed that electricity, magnetism, and light are three faces of the same thing — the second great unification in physics after Newton — and in doing so predicted radio waves before anyone could build them.
James Clerk Maxwell graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1854 with distinction in mathematics and the Smith's Prize, then briefly stayed to work on optics and colour theory. He held the Chair of Natural Philosophy at Marischal College in Aberdeen, where he solved the structure of Saturn's rings — correctly proposing they were countless small particles — and won the Adams Prize in 1859. From 1860 to 1865, as Professor of Natural Philosophy at King's College London, he developed his theory of electromagnetic fields, publishing "A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field" in 1865 to…
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Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is yet unable to express.
We shall see that the mathematical treatment of the subject [of electricity] has been greatly developed by writers who express themselves in terms of the 'Two Fluids' theory.
Ask no more, then, "what is best, How shall those you love be blest,"Ask at once eternal Rest, Peace and assurance giving.
He that would enjoy life and act with freedom must have the work of the day continually before his eyes.
How the learned fool would wonderWere he now to see his blunder, When he put his reason under The control of worldly Pride.
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