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James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish mathematician and physicist
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- Died:
- November 5, 1879, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England (aged 48)
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- BBC Sounds - Maxwell (Dec. 11, 2024)
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James Clerk Maxwell (born June 13, 1831, Edinburgh, Scotland—died November 5, 1879, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England) was a Scottish physicist best known for his formulation of electromagnetic theory. He is regarded by most modern physicists as the scientist of the 19th century who had the greatest influence on 20th-century physics, and he is ranked with Sir Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein for the fundamental nature of his contributions. In 1931, on the 100th anniversary of Maxwell’s birth, Einstein described the change in the conception of reality in physics that resulted from Maxwell’s work as “the most profound and the most fruitful ...(100 of 1735 words)