James Clerk Maxwell
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James Clerk Maxwell (born June 13th 1831 in Edinburgh – died November 5th 1879) was a Scottish mathematical physicist and founder of the Maxwell equations.
Maxwell grew up in a religious family. In 1845, at the age of 14, Maxwell wrote a paper describing mechanical means of drawing mathematical curves with a piece of twine. Up from 1847 Maxwell started studying natural philosophy, moral philosophy, and mental philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. In 1850 Maxwell changed to Cambridge University at the Trinity College. In 1854 he obtained his degree in mathematics from Cambridge. From 1855 to 1872 he did research on colour blindness.
In 1856 Maxwell was made to the chair of Natural Philosophy in Marischal College, Aberdeen, which he held until the fusion of the two colleges there in 1860. In 1860, he was a professor at King's College London. In 1861, Maxwell was elected to the Royal Society. In 1871, he was the first Cavendish Professor of Physics at Cambridge.
He researched mainly on electromagnetism and on the kinetic gas theory.
Maxwell died in 1879.
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- Maxwell, James Clerk, "On the Description of Oval Curves, and those having a plurality of Focus (geometry)|Foci". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol. ii. 1846.
- Maxwell, James Clerk, "Illustrations of the Dynamical Theory of Gases". 1860.
- Maxwell, James Clerk, "On Physical Lines of Force". 1861.
- Maxwell, James Clerk, "A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field". 1865.
- Maxwell, James Clerk, "On Governors".From the Proceedings of the Royal Society, No.100. 1868.
- Maxwell, James Clerk, "Theory of Heat". 1871.
- Maxwell, James Clerk, "A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism". Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1873.
- Maxwell, James Clerk, "Molecules". Nature, September, 1873.
- Maxwell, James Clerk, "Matter and Motion", 1876.
- Maxwell, James Clerk, "On the Results of Bernoulli's Theory of Gases as Applied to their Internal Friction, their Diffusion, and their Conductivity for Heat".
- Maxwell, James Clerk, "Ether", Encyclopedia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1875-89).
