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  2. James Clerk Maxwell - Wikipedia

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    James Clerk Maxwell FRS FRSE (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish physicist and mathematician [1] who was responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, which was the first theory to describe electricity, magnetism and light as different manifestations of the same phenomenon.

  3. James Clerk Maxwell Foundation - Wikipedia

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    Statue of James Clerk Maxwell, George Street, Edinburgh. The James Clerk Maxwell Foundation is a registered Scottish charity [1] set up in 1977. By supporting physics and mathematics, it honors one of the greatest physicists, James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879), [2] and while attempting to increase the public awareness and trust of science.

  4. A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field - Wikipedia

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    "A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field" is a paper by James Clerk Maxwell on electromagnetism, published in 1865. [1] Physicist Freeman Dyson called the publishing of the paper the "most important event of the nineteenth century in the history of the physical sciences."

  5. James Clerk Maxwell Medal and Prize - Wikipedia

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    It is named in honour of James Clerk Maxwell. The first medal was awarded in 1962 to Abdus Salam. Past recipients include subsequent Nobel Prize in Physics laureates (Abdus Salam, David Thouless, Anthony James Leggett, John Michael Kosterlitz) and Lucasian Professors of Mathematics (Stephen Hawking, Michael Green, and Michael Cates).

  6. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism - Wikipedia

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    A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism is a two-volume treatise on electromagnetism written by James Clerk Maxwell in 1873. Maxwell was revising the Treatise for a second edition when he died in 1879. The revision was completed by William Davidson Niven for publication in 1881.

  7. Category:James Clerk Maxwell - Wikipedia

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  8. The Maxwellians - Wikipedia

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    The Maxwellians is a book by Bruce J. Hunt, published in 1991 by Cornell University Press; a paperback edition appeared in 1994, and the book was reissued in 2005.It chronicles the development of electromagnetic theory in the years after the publication of A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell.

  9. On Physical Lines of Force - Wikipedia

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    "On Physical Lines of Force" is a four-part paper written by James Clerk Maxwell, published in 1861. [1] In it, Maxwell derived the equations of electromagnetism in conjunction with a "sea" of "molecular vortices" which he used to model Faraday's lines of force.