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James Clerk Maxwell

*1831 in Edenburgh
+1879 in Cambridge


   

James Clerk Maxwell

Scottish scientist in the field of mathematical physics.
His most notable achievement was to formulate the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation,
bringing together for the first time electricity, magnetism, and light
as manifestations of the same phenomenon  by Maxwell's equations for electromagnetism.

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