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James Clerk Maxwell is one of the giants of physics. Unfortunately, his work is less famous than that of the other greats – possibly because his crowning glory – Maxwell's Equations – are so hard to understand. In producing these equations, he was the first scientist ever to unify any of nature's fundamental forces.

James Maxwell was a scientist born to John Clerk and Frances Cay in Edinburgh, Scotland on June 13, 1831. He was an influential physicist and mathematician. He produced a set of equations which are best known as 'Maxwell's Equations'. He wrote his first scientific paper when he was only 14.

About 150 years ago, James Clerk Maxwell, an English scientist, developed a scientific theory to explain electromagnetic waves. He noticed that electrical fields and magnetic fields can couple together to form electromagnetic waves.

In the 1850s, Maxwell was working at the University of Cambridge where he was impressed by Faraday's lines of forces concept. In 1856, he published his 1st paper in electromagnetism: On Faraday's Lines of Force. ... These works had already laid the basis of the formulation of the Maxwell's equations.

James Clerk Maxwell built on the work of Faraday and developed a single set of equations defining both electricity and magnetism, unifying the concepts into one theory of electromagnetism.

Electromagnetic Theory covers the basic principles of electromagnetism: experimental basis, electrostatics, magnetic fields of steady currents, motional e.m.f. and electromagnetic induction, Maxwell's equations, propagation and radiation of electromagnetic waves, electric and magnetic properties of matter, and ...

Heinrich Hertz was a brilliant German physicist and experimentalist who demonstrated that the electromagnetic waves predicted by James Clerk Maxwell actually exist.Oct 12, 2012

James Clerk Maxwell's father, John Clerk Maxwell, had one brother and one sister. Maxwell's family tree is at THIS LINK. His brother Sir George Clerk inherited one part of the families property at Penicuik, south of Edinburgh, while John Clerk Maxwell inherited the Maxwell estate at Middlebie near Dumfries.

The discovery of electromagnetic induction in the early part of the 19th century is one of the greatest scientific achievements of all time, and it has had tremendous technological consequences. The credit for this discovery rightfully goes to the great English experimental physicist Michael Faraday.Dec 6, 2016