James Clerk Maxwell

In Hawaii, on Mauna Kea, there are two: one called the James Clerk Maxwell

Universe Today 2008

An Italian inventor the great Guglielmo Marconi used an idea of Scientists such as James Clerk Maxwell and Heinrich Hertz to develop the first working wireless transmitter in 1895 which took the by surprise world.

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James Clerk Maxwell would later give them mathematical form.

Keeper of the Flame Peter Pesic 2012

James Clerk Maxwell was described by Einstein as among the best physicists since Newton -- but was also a published poet.

Ewan McIntosh: Why Google's Eric Schmidt Is Only Partly Right About Science & Tech Education Ewan McIntosh 2011

James Clerk Maxwell was described by Einstein as among the best physicists since Newton -- but was also a published poet.

Ewan McIntosh: Why Google's Eric Schmidt Is Only Partly Right About Science & Tech Education Ewan McIntosh 2011

Sampling from models that behave well, Mr. Derman gives an eloquent description of James Clerk Maxwell's electromagnetic theory in a chapter titled "The Sublime."

Physics Envy Burton G. Malkiel 2011

And the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell, who, more than a century before my daughters and I had lain on the Santa Barbara grass, described his own earliest memory as "lying on the grass, looking at the sun and wondering."

Arianna Huffington: E=HP2: Welcome to HuffPost Science Arianna Huffington 2012

During the fifty or more years that Galton devoted himself to arguing his silly conclusions about the innate origins of eminence, Friedrich Mieschler discovered DNA, Charles Darwin (Galton's cousin, no less) proposed evolution by natural selection, John Newlands proposed the first periodic table of chemical elements, Arthur Cayley developed matrix algebra, Robert Koch isolated the bacillus responsible for tuberculosis, and James Clerk Maxwell proposed a mathematical theory of light as electromagnetic radiation.

Dan Agin: Black and White in America II: The Phantom of Group Differences 2009

Although Faraday was unable to express his theories in mathematical terms, his ideas formed the basis for the electromagnetic equations that James Clerk Maxwell developed in the 1850s and 1860s.

Faraday, Michael 2009

Today is also the birthdate of James Clerk Maxwell.

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