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  2. Jan Ingenhousz - Wikipedia

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    Jan Ingenhousz FRS (8 December 1730 – 7 September 1799) was a Dutch-British [1] physiologist, biologist and chemist.. He is best known for discovering photosynthesis by showing that light is essential to the process by which green plants absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen.

  3. James Clerk Maxwell - Wikipedia

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    With the publication of "A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field" in 1865, Maxwell demonstrated that electric and magnetic fields travel through space as waves moving at the speed of light. He proposed that light is an undulation in the same medium that is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena. [ 5 ]

  4. History of Maxwell's equations - Wikipedia

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    The concept of fields was introduced by, among others, Faraday. Albert Einstein wrote: The precise formulation of the time-space laws was the work of Maxwell. Imagine his feelings when the differential equations he had formulated proved to him that electromagnetic fields spread in the form of polarized waves, and at the speed of light!

  5. History of electromagnetic theory - Wikipedia

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    In his 1864 paper A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field, Maxwell wrote, The agreement of the results seems to show that light and magnetism are affections of the same substance, and that light is an electromagnetic disturbance propagated through the field according to electromagnetic laws. [129]

  6. Photon - Wikipedia

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    In 1900, Maxwell's theoretical model of light as oscillating electric and magnetic fields seemed complete. However, several observations could not be explained by any wave model of electromagnetic radiation, leading to the idea that light-energy was packaged into quanta described by E = hν.

  7. Evolution of photosynthesis - Wikipedia

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    The evolution of photosynthesis refers to the origin and subsequent evolution of photosynthesis, the process by which light energy is used to assemble sugars from carbon dioxide and a hydrogen and electron source such as water. It is believed that the pigments used for photosynthesis initially were used for protection from the harmful effects ...

  8. Electromagnetic radiation - Wikipedia

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    The electric and magnetic fields in such a wave are in-phase with each other, reaching minima and maxima together. Electric and magnetic fields obey the properties of superposition. Thus, a field due to any particular particle or time-varying electric or magnetic field contributes to the fields present in the same space due to other causes.

  9. Maxwell's equations - Wikipedia

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    The original law of Ampère states that magnetic fields relate to electric current. Maxwell's addition states that magnetic fields also relate to changing electric fields, which Maxwell called displacement current. The integral form states that electric and displacement currents are associated with a proportional magnetic field along any ...