MAXWELL (James Clerk, 1831-1879, Physicist)

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In a relatively short life, Clerk Maxwell made fundamental advances, not least in propounding the field theory of electromagnetism expressed in mathematical equations, as important as Newton's had been in mechanics and gravitation, and leading to light as an electromagnetic wave and on to wireless waves. From 1865 Maxwell had worked mostly on his estate at Glenlair, but in 1871 had accepted the post of first Cavendish professor at Cambridge. With the Duke of Devonshire, he was in the middle of setting up the famous laboratory, opened in 1874.

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