James Clerk Maxwell

1831–1879

1 standalone book

James Clerk Maxwell was a Scottish physicist and mathematician who developed the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, which described electricity, magnetism, and light as different forms of the same phenomenon. His equations for electromagnetism achieved the second great unification in physics, following the work of Isaac Newton. Maxwell was also influential in the development of statistical mechanics. He was born in 1831 and died in 1879.

Born

1831