Science Book by Big Ideas Simply Explained

Author:Big Ideas Simply Explained
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd

JAMES CLERK MAXWELL

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1831, James Clerk Maxwell showed genius from an early age, publishing a scientific paper on geometry at the age of 14. Educated at the universities of Edinburgh and Cambridge, he became a professor at Marischal College in Aberdeen, Scotland, at the age of 25. It was there that he began his work on electromagnetism.

Maxwell was interested in many other scientific problems of the age: in 1859, he was the first to explain the structure of Saturn’s rings; between 1855 and 1872, he did important work on the theory of colour vision, and from 1859 to 1866 he developed a mathematical model for the distribution of particle velocities in a gas.

A shy man, Maxwell was also fond of writing poetry and remained devoutly religious all his life. He died of cancer at the age of 48.

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