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Category:	Romantic Science
Name:	James Clerk Maxwell - Physics, Math
Birth Year:	1831
Death Year:	1879
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Biography, Lectures, and Research Links:	Biography - Physics Series, Math Series Blog James Clerk Maxwell SEARCH NOW: by title by author James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) was a 19th century Scottish physicist who codified earlier work on electricity and magnetism by Michael Faraday, Andre Marie Ampere, and others into a linked set of twenty differential equations in quaternions, the same mathematical system used later by Einstein for the relativity theory. Both theories have many similarities and we can say that Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism was a precursor of the relativity. Heaviside simplified the theory down to four differential equations, known collectively as Maxwell's Laws or Maxwell's equations. Maxwell's Laws describe the nature of static and moving electric and magnetic charges, and the relationship between the two, namely electromagnetic induction. The equations allow for the existence of a self-propagating electromagnetic wave which has the same velocity as that of light, suggesting that light is in fact that electromagnetic wave. The validity of that suggestion was later demonstrated in experiments by Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, and was fundamental to the invention of radio, usually attributed to Guglielmo Marconi. Maxwell also did basic work on Thermodynamics which led him to the well known thought experiment, Maxwell's demon. [This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and uses material adapted in whole or in part from the Wikipedia article on James Clerk Maxwell.] The Great Books: James Clerk Maxwell Please browse our Amazon list of titles about James Clerk Maxwell. For rare and hard to find works we recommend our Alibris list of titles about James Clerk Maxwell. Post Comments, Questions or Suggestions! This database is maintained by Malaspina Great Books.
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