Katherine Clerk Maxwell
British physicist · United Kingdom · Scientists · Lived 1824 to 1886 · aged 62
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Something wrong?Katherine Mary Clerk Maxwell was the wife of Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell. In the 1850s and 1860s she aided him in some of his work on colour vision and his experiments on the viscosity of gases. She was born Katherine Dewar in 1824 in Glasgow and married Clerk Maxwell in Aberdeen in 1858.
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This is a diagram of the apparatus James and Katherine used in the experiments on colour vision reported in James Clerk Maxwell's paper "On the Theory of Compound Colours, and the Relations of the Colours of the Spectrum," published in Philosophical Transactions Vol. 150 pp. 57-84, 1 January 1860.
An image showing Katherine Clerk Maxwell (seated), with her husband James Clerk Maxwell and the couple's dog.
An image of Katherine Clerk Maxwell's grave in Parton, Dumfries and Galloway, where she is buried with her husband James Clerk Maxwell and his parents.In their orbit
Spouse: James Clerk MaxwellAbout this person
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United Kingdom
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Scientists
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Scientist
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deceased
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Lived 1824 to 1886 · aged 62
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