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thermodynamics</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Kinetic_theory_and_thermodynamics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Control_theory" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Control_theory"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4</span> <span>Control theory</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Control_theory-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Honours" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Honours"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Honours</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Honours-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Publications" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Publications"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Publications</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Publications-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>External links</span> </div> 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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Адыгабзэ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-af mw-list-item"><a href="https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Afrikaans" lang="af" hreflang="af" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Afrikaans" data-language-local-name="Afrikaans" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Afrikaans</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-als mw-list-item"><a href="https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Alemannisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-am mw-list-item"><a href="https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8C%84%E1%88%9D%E1%88%B5_%E1%88%9B%E1%8A%AD%E1%88%B5%E1%8B%88%E1%88%8D" title="ጄምስ ማክስወል – Amharic" lang="am" hreflang="am" data-title="ጄምስ ማክስወል" data-language-autonym="አማርኛ" data-language-local-name="Amharic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>አማርኛ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84" title="جيمس ماكسويل – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="جيمس ماكسويل" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gn mw-list-item"><a href="https://gn.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Guarani" lang="gn" hreflang="gn" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Avañe'ẽ" data-language-local-name="Guarani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Avañe'ẽ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceyms_Maksvell" title="Ceyms Maksvell – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Ceyms Maksvell" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A6%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%DA%A9%D9%84%D8%B1%DA%A9_%D9%85%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%84" title="جئیمز کلرک ماکسول – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="جئیمز کلرک ماکسول" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%9C%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%B8_%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%95_%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%93%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B2" title="জেমস ক্লার্ক ম্যাক্সওয়েল – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="জেমস ক্লার্ক ম্যাক্সওয়েল" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB" title="Джеймс Максвелл – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Джеймс Максвелл" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D1%8D%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BB" title="Джэймс Максвел – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Джэймс Максвел" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D1%8D%D0%B9%D0%BC%D0%B7_%D0%9A%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%81%D1%9E%D1%8D%D0%BB" title="Джэймз Кларк Максўэл – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Джэймз Кларк Максўэл" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81_%D0%9A%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%81%D1%83%D0%B5%D0%BB" title="Джеймс Кларк Максуел – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Джеймс Кларк Максуел" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CE%B6%CE%AD%CE%B9%CE%BC%CF%82_%CE%9A%CE%BB%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%BA_%CE%9C%CE%AC%CE%BE%CE%B3%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%B5%CE%BB" title="Τζέιμς Κλερκ Μάξγουελ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Τζέιμς Κλερκ Μάξγουελ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%DA%A9%D9%84%D8%B1%DA%A9_%D9%85%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%84" title="جیمز کلرک ماکسول – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="جیمز کلرک ماکسول" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hif mw-list-item"><a href="https://hif.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Fiji Hindi" lang="hif" hreflang="hif" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Fiji Hindi" data-language-local-name="Fiji Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Fiji Hindi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gan mw-list-item"><a href="https://gan.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%BA%A6%E6%96%AF%E9%9F%A6" title="麦斯韦 – Gan" lang="gan" hreflang="gan" data-title="麦斯韦" data-language-autonym="贛語" data-language-local-name="Gan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>贛語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A0%9C%EC%9E%84%EC%8A%A4_%ED%81%B4%EB%9F%AC%ED%81%AC_%EB%A7%A5%EC%8A%A4%EC%9B%B0" title="제임스 클러크 맥스웰 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="제임스 클러크 맥스웰" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8B%D5%A5%D5%B5%D5%B4%D5%BD_%D5%84%D5%A1%D6%84%D5%BD%D5%BE%D5%A5%D5%AC" title="Ջեյմս Մաքսվել – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Ջեյմս Մաքսվել" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%95_%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B2" title="जेम्स क्लर्क मैक्सवेल – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="जेम्स क्लर्क मैक्सवेल" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ilo mw-list-item"><a href="https://ilo.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Iloko" lang="ilo" hreflang="ilo" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Ilokano" data-language-local-name="Iloko" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ilokano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92%27%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%A1_%D7%A7%D7%9C%D7%A8%D7%A7_%D7%9E%D7%A7%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%95%D7%9C" title="ג'יימס קלרק מקסוול – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="ג'יימס קלרק מקסוול" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%9C%E0%B3%87%E0%B2%AE%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E2%80%8C_%E0%B2%95%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B2%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%95%E0%B3%8D%E2%80%8C_%E0%B2%AE%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%95%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E2%80%8C%E0%B2%B5%E0%B3%86%E0%B2%B2%E0%B3%8D" title="ಜೇಮ್ಸ್ ಕ್ಲರ್ಕ್ ಮ್ಯಾಕ್ಸ್ವೆಲ್ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ಜೇಮ್ಸ್ ಕ್ಲರ್ಕ್ ಮ್ಯಾಕ್ಸ್ವೆಲ್" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pam mw-list-item"><a href="https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Pampanga" lang="pam" hreflang="pam" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Kapampangan" data-language-local-name="Pampanga" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kapampangan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%AF%E1%83%94%E1%83%98%E1%83%9B%E1%83%96_%E1%83%99%E1%83%9A%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%99_%E1%83%9B%E1%83%90%E1%83%A5%E1%83%A1%E1%83%95%E1%83%94%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98" title="ჯეიმზ კლარკ მაქსველი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ჯეიმზ კლარკ მაქსველი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81_%D0%9A%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BA_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB" title="Джеймс Клерк Максвелл – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Джеймс Клерк Максвелл" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw mw-list-item"><a href="https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Cornish" lang="kw" hreflang="kw" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Kernowek" data-language-local-name="Cornish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kernowek</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ht mw-list-item"><a href="https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Haitian Creole" lang="ht" hreflang="ht" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Kreyòl ayisyen" data-language-local-name="Haitian Creole" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kreyòl ayisyen</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81_%D0%9A%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BA_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB" title="Жеймс Клерк Максвелл – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Жеймс Клерк Максвелл" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iacobus_Clerk_Maxwell" title="Iacobus Clerk Maxwell – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Iacobus Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%BEeimss_Maksvels" title="Džeimss Maksvels – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Džeimss Maksvels" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-li mw-list-item"><a href="https://li.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Limburgish" lang="li" hreflang="li" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Limburgs" data-language-local-name="Limburgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Limburgs</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-olo mw-list-item"><a href="https://olo.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Livvi-Karelian" lang="olo" hreflang="olo" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Livvinkarjala" data-language-local-name="Livvi-Karelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Livvinkarjala</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lombard</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%8F%D0%B5%D1%98%D0%BC%D1%81_%D0%9A%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BB" title="Џејмс Кларк Максвел – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Џејмс Кларк Максвел" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%9C%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%82%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B2%E0%B4%BE%E0%B5%BC%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D%E2%80%8C%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%86%E0%B5%BD" title="ജെയിംസ് ക്ലാർക്ക് മാക്സ്വെൽ – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ജെയിംസ് ക്ലാർക്ക് മാക്സ്വെൽ" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%95_%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%85%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B2" title="जेम्स क्लार्क मॅक्सवेल – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="जेम्स क्लार्क मॅक्सवेल" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%AF%E1%83%94%E1%83%98%E1%83%9B%E1%83%96_%E1%83%99%E1%83%9A%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%99_%E1%83%9B%E1%83%90%E1%83%A5%E1%83%A1%E1%83%95%E1%83%94%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98" title="ჯეიმზ კლერკ მაქსველი – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="ჯეიმზ კლერკ მაქსველი" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84" title="جيمس ماكسويل – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="جيمس ماكسويل" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81_%D0%9A%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BA_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB" title="Жеймс Клерк Максвелл – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Жеймс Клерк Максвелл" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Монгол</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%82%E1%80%BB%E1%80%AD%E1%80%99%E1%80%BA%E1%80%B8%E1%80%85%E1%80%BA_%E1%80%99%E1%80%80%E1%80%BA%E1%80%85%E1%80%BA%E1%80%9D%E1%80%B2" title="ဂျိမ်းစ် မက်စ်ဝဲ – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="ဂျိမ်းစ် မက်စ်ဝဲ" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%95_%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B2" title="जेम्स क्लर्क माक्सवेल – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="जेम्स क्लर्क माक्सवेल" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-new mw-list-item"><a href="https://new.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%95_%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B2" title="जेम्स् क्लर्क म्याक्सवेल – Newari" lang="new" hreflang="new" data-title="जेम्स् क्लर्क म्याक्सवेल" data-language-autonym="नेपाल भाषा" data-language-local-name="Newari" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाल भाषा</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%E3%82%BA%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB" title="ジェームズ・クラーク・マクスウェル – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ジェームズ・クラーク・マクスウェル" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce mw-list-item"><a href="https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB,_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81_%D0%9A%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BA" title="Максвелл, Джеймс Клерк – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce" data-title="Максвелл, Джеймс Клерк" data-language-autonym="Нохчийн" data-language-local-name="Chechen" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Нохчийн</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-or mw-list-item"><a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%9C%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%AE%E0%AD%8D%E2%80%8C%E0%AC%B8%E0%AD%8D_%E0%AC%95%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%B2%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%95%E0%AD%8D_%E0%AC%AE%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%95%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%B8%E0%AD%B1%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%B2%E0%AD%8D%E2%80%8C" title="ଜେମ୍ସ୍ କ୍ଲର୍କ୍ ମାକ୍ସୱେଲ୍ – Odia" lang="or" hreflang="or" data-title="ଜେମ୍ସ୍ କ୍ଲର୍କ୍ ମାକ୍ସୱେଲ୍" data-language-autonym="ଓଡ଼ିଆ" data-language-local-name="Odia" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ଓଡ଼ିଆ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%9C%E0%A9%87%E0%A8%AE%E0%A8%9C%E0%A8%BC_%E0%A8%95%E0%A8%B2%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%95_%E0%A8%AE%E0%A9%88%E0%A8%95%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%B5%E0%A9%88%E0%A9%B1%E0%A8%B2" title="ਜੇਮਜ਼ ਕਲਰਕ ਮੈਕਸਵੈੱਲ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਜੇਮਜ਼ ਕਲਰਕ ਮੈਕਸਵੈੱਲ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%DA%A9%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%A9_%D9%85%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%B3%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84" title="جیمز کلارک میکسویل – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="جیمز کلارک میکسویل" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B2_%DA%A9%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%A9_%D9%85%D9%8A%DA%A9%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84" title="جيمز کلارک ميکسويل – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="جيمز کلارک ميکسويل" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پښتو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pms mw-list-item"><a href="https://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Piedmontese" lang="pms" hreflang="pms" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Piemontèis" data-language-local-name="Piedmontese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Piemontèis</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Low German" lang="nds" hreflang="nds" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Plattdüütsch" data-language-local-name="Low German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Plattdüütsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CE%B6%CE%AD%CE%B9%CE%BC%CF%82_%CE%9A%CE%BB%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%BA_%CE%9C%CE%AC%CE%BE%CE%B3%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%B5%CE%BB" title="Τζέιμς Κλερκ Μάξγουελ – Pontic" lang="pnt" hreflang="pnt" data-title="Τζέιμς Κλερκ Μάξγουελ" data-language-autonym="Ποντιακά" data-language-local-name="Pontic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ποντιακά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Runa Simi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rue mw-list-item"><a href="https://rue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81_%D0%9A%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BA_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB" title="Джеймс Клерк Максвелл – Rusyn" lang="rue" hreflang="rue" data-title="Джеймс Клерк Максвелл" data-language-autonym="Русиньскый" data-language-local-name="Rusyn" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русиньскый</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB,_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81_%D0%9A%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BA" title="Максвелл, Джеймс Клерк – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Максвелл, Джеймс Клерк" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sah mw-list-item"><a href="https://sah.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81_%D0%9A%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BA" title="Максвелл Джеймс Клерк – Yakut" lang="sah" hreflang="sah" data-title="Максвелл Джеймс Клерк" data-language-autonym="Саха тыла" data-language-local-name="Yakut" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Саха тыла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-szy mw-list-item"><a href="https://szy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canmuse.kelake.makesewiy" title="Canmuse.kelake.makesewiy – Sakizaya" lang="szy" hreflang="szy" data-title="Canmuse.kelake.makesewiy" data-language-autonym="Sakizaya" data-language-local-name="Sakizaya" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sakizaya</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sa mw-list-item"><a href="https://sa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%95_%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B2" title="जेम्स क्लर्क माक्सवेल – Sanskrit" lang="sa" hreflang="sa" data-title="जेम्स क्लर्क माक्सवेल" data-language-autonym="संस्कृतम्" data-language-local-name="Sanskrit" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>संस्कृतम्</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sat mw-list-item"><a href="https://sat.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%B1%A1%E1%B1%AE%E1%B1%A2%E1%B1%A5_%E1%B1%A0%E1%B1%9E%E1%B1%9A%E1%B1%A8%E1%B1%A0_%E1%B1%A2%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%A0%E1%B1%A5%E1%B1%A3%E1%B1%AE%E1%B1%9E" title="ᱡᱮᱢᱥ ᱠᱞᱚᱨᱠ ᱢᱟᱠᱥᱣᱮᱞ – Santali" lang="sat" hreflang="sat" data-title="ᱡᱮᱢᱥ ᱠᱞᱚᱨᱠ ᱢᱟᱠᱥᱣᱮᱞ" data-language-autonym="ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ" data-language-local-name="Santali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xhames_Klerk_Maxwell" title="Xhames Klerk Maxwell – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Xhames Klerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%95%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%DA%A9%D9%84%DB%8E%D8%B1%DA%A9_%D9%85%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%B3%D9%88%DB%8E%DA%B5" title="جەیمز کلێرک ماکسوێڵ – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="جەیمز کلێرک ماکسوێڵ" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%8F%D0%B5%D1%98%D0%BC%D1%81_%D0%9A%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BA_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BB" title="Џејмс Клерк Максвел – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Џејмс Клерк Максвел" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="James Clerk Maxwell – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="James Clerk Maxwell" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / 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biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">James Clerk Maxwell</div><div class="honorific-suffix" style="font-size: 77%; font-weight: normal;"><span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society" title="Fellow of the Royal Society">FRS</a></span> <span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Edinburgh" class="mw-redirect" title="Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh">FRSE</a></span></span></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:James-Clerk-Maxwell-1831-1879.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/James-Clerk-Maxwell-1831-1879.jpg/220px-James-Clerk-Maxwell-1831-1879.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="275" class="mw-file-element" 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title="Cambridge">Cambridge</a>, England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Parton,_Dumfries_and_Galloway" title="Parton, Dumfries and Galloway">Parton, Dumfries and Galloway</a><br /><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=James_Clerk_Maxwell&params=55.006693_N_4.03921_W_type:landmark"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">55°00′24″N</span> <span class="longitude">4°02′21″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">55.006693°N 4.039210°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">55.006693; -4.039210</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/University_of_Edinburgh" title="University of Edinburgh">University of Edinburgh</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Peterhouse,_Cambridge" title="Peterhouse, Cambridge">Peterhouse, Cambridge</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Trinity_College,_Cambridge" title="Trinity College, Cambridge">Trinity College, Cambridge</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold"><i>See list</i></span></div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin-left: 0;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maxwell%27s_equations" title="Maxwell's equations">Maxwell's equations</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Statistical_mechanics" title="Statistical mechanics">Statistical mechanics</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Displacement_current" title="Displacement current">Displacement current</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Maxwell_relations" title="Maxwell relations">Maxwell relations</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Betti%27s_theorem" title="Betti's theorem">Maxwell–Betti theorem</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Maxwell%E2%80%93Boltzmann_distribution" title="Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution">Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Maxwell%E2%80%93Boltzmann_statistics" title="Maxwell–Boltzmann statistics">Maxwell–Boltzmann statistics</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Maxwell%E2%80%93Stefan_diffusion" title="Maxwell–Stefan diffusion">Maxwell–Stefan diffusion</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon" title="Maxwell's demon">Maxwell's demon</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Maxwell_construction" title="Maxwell construction">Maxwell construction</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Kinematic_coupling#Maxwell_coupling" title="Kinematic coupling">Maxwell coupling</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Kinetic_theory_of_gases" title="Kinetic theory of gases">Kinetic theory of gases</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Maxwell%27s_discs" class="mw-redirect" title="Maxwell's discs">Maxwell's discs</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Maxwell_speed_distribution" class="mw-redirect" title="Maxwell speed distribution">Maxwell speed distribution</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Stress_functions#Maxwell_stress_functions" title="Stress functions">Maxwell stress functions</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Maxwell%27s_theorem" title="Maxwell's theorem">Maxwell's theorem</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Maxwell%27s_theorem_(geometry)" title="Maxwell's theorem (geometry)">Maxwell's theorem (geometry)</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Maxwell_material" title="Maxwell material">Maxwell material</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Von_Mises_yield_criterion" title="Von Mises yield criterion">Maxwell–Huber–Hencky–von Mises theory</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Maxwell%E2%80%93Wagner%E2%80%93Sillars_polarization" title="Maxwell–Wagner–Sillars polarization">Maxwell–Wagner–Sillars polarization</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Maxwell_bridge" title="Maxwell bridge">Maxwell bridge</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Maxwell_coil" title="Maxwell coil">Maxwell coil</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Luneburg_lens#Maxwell's_fish-eye_lens" title="Luneburg lens">Maxwell's fish-eye lens</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Fovea_centralis#Entoptic_effects_in_the_fovea" title="Fovea centralis">Maxwell's spot</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Additive_color" title="Additive color">Maxwell's wheel</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Maxwell%27s_thermodynamic_surface" title="Maxwell's thermodynamic surface">Maxwell's thermodynamic surface</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Rings_of_Saturn" title="Rings of Saturn">Rings of Saturn</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Control_theory" title="Control theory">Control theory</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Coherence_(units_of_measurement)" title="Coherence (units of measurement)">Coherent system of units</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Chaos_theory" title="Chaos theory">Chaos theory</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Dimensional_analysis" title="Dimensional analysis">Dimensional analysis</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Generalized_conic" title="Generalized conic">Generalized conic</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Singularity_(system_theory)" class="mw-redirect" title="Singularity (system theory)">Singularity</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Structural_rigidity" title="Structural rigidity">Structural rigidity</a></li></ul></div></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Katherine_Clerk_Maxwell" title="Katherine Clerk Maxwell">Katherine Dewar</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;">​</div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1858)<wbr />​</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Smith%27s_Prize" title="Smith's Prize">Smith's Prize</a> (1854)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Adams_Prize" title="Adams Prize">Adams Prize</a> (1857)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Rumford_Medal" title="Rumford Medal">Rumford Medal</a> (1860)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society" title="Fellow of the Royal Society">FRS</a> (1861)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Society_Bakerian_Medal" title="Royal Society Bakerian Medal">Bakerian Medal</a> (1866)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Keith_Medal" title="Keith Medal">Keith Medal</a> (1869–1871)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/William_Hopkins" title="William Hopkins">William Hopkins</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Notable students</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Chrystal" title="George Chrystal">George Chrystal</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Horace_Lamb" title="Horace Lamb">Horace Lamb</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/John_Henry_Poynting" title="John Henry Poynting">John Henry Poynting</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:#eee;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">1st <a href="/wiki/Cavendish_Professor_of_Physics" title="Cavendish Professor of Physics">Cavendish Professor of Physics</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1871–1879</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_William_Strutt,_3rd_Baron_Rayleigh" title="John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh">Lord Rayleigh</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Signature</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span class="infobox-signature skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:James_Clerk_Maxwell_sig.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/James_Clerk_Maxwell_sig.svg/150px-James_Clerk_Maxwell_sig.svg.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="50" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/James_Clerk_Maxwell_sig.svg/225px-James_Clerk_Maxwell_sig.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/James_Clerk_Maxwell_sig.svg/300px-James_Clerk_Maxwell_sig.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="202" data-file-height="68" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>James Clerk Maxwell</b> <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society" title="Fellow of the Royal Society">FRS</a></span> <span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Edinburgh" class="mw-redirect" title="Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh">FRSE</a></span></span> (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish <a href="/wiki/Physicist" title="Physicist">physicist</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mathematician" title="Mathematician">mathematician</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who was responsible for the <a href="/wiki/Classical_theory" class="mw-redirect" title="Classical theory">classical theory</a> of <a href="/wiki/Electromagnetic_radiation" title="Electromagnetic radiation">electromagnetic radiation</a>, which was the first theory to describe electricity, <a href="/wiki/Magnetism" title="Magnetism">magnetism</a> and light as different manifestations of the same phenomenon. <a href="/wiki/Maxwell%27s_equations" title="Maxwell's equations">Maxwell's equations</a> for electromagnetism achieved the <a href="/wiki/Unification_(physics)#Unification_of_magnetism,_electricity,_light_and_related_radiation" class="mw-redirect" title="Unification (physics)">second great unification in physics</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where <a href="/wiki/Unification_(physics)#Unification_of_gravity_and_astronomy" class="mw-redirect" title="Unification (physics)">the first one</a> had been realised by <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Newton" title="Isaac Newton">Isaac Newton</a>. Maxwell was also key in the creation of <a href="/wiki/Statistical_mechanics" title="Statistical mechanics">statistical mechanics</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMahon200382–83,_164_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMahon200382–83,_164-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>With the publication of "<a href="/wiki/A_Dynamical_Theory_of_the_Electromagnetic_Field" title="A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field">A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field</a>" in 1865, Maxwell demonstrated that <a href="/wiki/Electric_force" class="mw-redirect" title="Electric force">electric</a> and <a href="/wiki/Magnetic_field" title="Magnetic field">magnetic fields</a> travel through space as <a href="/wiki/Wave" title="Wave">waves</a> moving at the <a href="/wiki/Speed_of_light" title="Speed of light">speed of light</a>. He proposed that light is an undulation in the same medium that is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena.<sup id="cite_ref-ADTEF_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ADTEF-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The unification of light and electrical phenomena led to his prediction of the existence of <a href="/wiki/Radio_wave" title="Radio wave">radio waves</a>. As a result of his equations, and other important contributions such as introducing an effective method to deal with network problems and linear conductors, Maxwell is regarded as a founder of the modern field of <a href="/wiki/Electrical_engineering" title="Electrical engineering">electrical engineering</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Maxwell was the first to derive the <a href="/wiki/Maxwell%E2%80%93Boltzmann_distribution" title="Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution">Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution</a>, a statistical means of describing aspects of the <a href="/wiki/Kinetic_theory_of_gases" title="Kinetic theory of gases">kinetic theory of gases</a>, which he worked on sporadically throughout his career.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is also known for presenting the first durable <a href="/wiki/Colour_photograph" class="mw-redirect" title="Colour photograph">colour photograph</a> in 1861 and for his foundational work on analysing the <a href="/wiki/Structural_rigidity" title="Structural rigidity">rigidity</a> of rod-and-joint frameworks (<a href="/wiki/Truss" title="Truss">trusses</a>) like those in many bridges. Maxwell helped to established the <a href="/wiki/Centimetre%E2%80%93gram%E2%80%93second_system_of_units" title="Centimetre–gram–second system of units">CGS system</a> of measurement.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is responsible for modern <a href="/wiki/Dimensional_analysis" title="Dimensional analysis">dimensional analysis</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Maxwell is also recognized for laying the groundwork for <a href="/wiki/Chaos_theory" title="Chaos theory">chaos theory</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Maxwell correctly predicted that the <a href="/wiki/Rings_of_Saturn" title="Rings of Saturn">rings of Saturn</a> were made up of many unattached small fragments.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His 1863 paper <i>On Governors</i> serves as an important foundation for <a href="/wiki/Control_theory" title="Control theory">control theory</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cybernetics" title="Cybernetics">cybernetics</a>, and was also the earliest mathematical analysis on <a href="/wiki/Control_system" title="Control system">control systems</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMahon20032–3,_140_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMahon20032–3,_140-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His discoveries helped usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundations for such fields as <a href="/wiki/Theory_of_relativity" title="Theory of relativity">relativity</a>, also being the one to introduce the term into physics,<sup id="cite_ref-:2_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Quantum_mechanics" title="Quantum mechanics">quantum mechanics</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMahon20032_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMahon20032-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many physicists regard Maxwell as the 19th-century scientist having the greatest influence on 20th-century physics. His contributions to the science are considered by many to be of the same magnitude as those of Isaac Newton and <a href="/wiki/Albert_Einstein" title="Albert Einstein">Albert Einstein</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the millennium poll—a survey of the 100 most prominent physicists—Maxwell was voted the third greatest physicist of all time, behind only Newton and Einstein,<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with another survey of rank-and-file physicists also voting him third.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On the centenary of Maxwell's birthday, his work was described by Einstein as the "most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton".<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When Einstein visited the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">University of Cambridge</a> in 1922, he was told by his host that he had done great things because he stood on Newton's shoulders; Einstein replied: "No I don't. I stand on the shoulders of Maxwell."<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tom Siegfried described Maxwell as "one of those once-in-a-century geniuses who perceived the physical world with sharper senses than those around him".<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life">Life</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_life,_1831–1839"><span id="Early_life.2C_1831.E2.80.931839"></span>Early life, 1831–1839</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:James_Clerk_Maxwell%27s_birthplace_at_14_India_Street.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/James_Clerk_Maxwell%27s_birthplace_at_14_India_Street.jpg/170px-James_Clerk_Maxwell%27s_birthplace_at_14_India_Street.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="255" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/James_Clerk_Maxwell%27s_birthplace_at_14_India_Street.jpg/255px-James_Clerk_Maxwell%27s_birthplace_at_14_India_Street.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/James_Clerk_Maxwell%27s_birthplace_at_14_India_Street.jpg/340px-James_Clerk_Maxwell%27s_birthplace_at_14_India_Street.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2056" data-file-height="3088" /></a><figcaption>Clerk Maxwell's birthplace at 14 India Street in Edinburgh is now the home of the <a href="/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell_Foundation" title="James Clerk Maxwell Foundation">James Clerk Maxwell Foundation</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>James Clerk Maxwell was born on 13 June 1831<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> at 14 India Street, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a>, to <a href="/wiki/John_Clerk_Maxwell_of_Middlebie" title="John Clerk Maxwell of Middlebie">John Clerk Maxwell of Middlebie</a>, an advocate, and Frances Cay,<sup id="cite_ref-oxford_506_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oxford_506-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Waterston_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Waterston-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> daughter of <a href="/wiki/Robert_Hodshon_Cay" title="Robert Hodshon Cay">Robert Hodshon Cay</a> and sister of <a href="/wiki/John_Cay" title="John Cay">John Cay</a>. (His birthplace now houses a museum operated by the <a href="/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell_Foundation" title="James Clerk Maxwell Foundation">James Clerk Maxwell Foundation</a>.) His father was a man of comfortable means<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of the Clerk family of <a href="/wiki/Penicuik" title="Penicuik">Penicuik</a>, holders of the <a href="/wiki/Baronetcy" class="mw-redirect" title="Baronetcy">baronetcy</a> of <a href="/wiki/Clerk_baronets" title="Clerk baronets">Clerk of Penicuik</a>. His father's brother was the <a href="/wiki/Sir_George_Clerk,_6th_Baronet" title="Sir George Clerk, 6th Baronet">6th baronet</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-preface_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-preface-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He had been born "John Clerk", adding "Maxwell" to his own after he inherited (as an infant in 1793) the Middlebie estate, a Maxwell property in Dumfriesshire.<sup id="cite_ref-oxford_506_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oxford_506-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> James was a first cousin of both the artist <a href="/wiki/Jemima_Blackburn" title="Jemima Blackburn">Jemima Blackburn</a><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (the daughter of his father's sister) and the civil engineer <a href="/wiki/William_Dyce_Cay" title="William Dyce Cay">William Dyce Cay</a> (the son of his mother's brother). Cay and Maxwell were close friends and Cay acted as his best man when Maxwell married.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Maxwell's parents met and married when they were well into their thirties;<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> his mother was nearly 40 when he was born. They had had one earlier child, a daughter named Elizabeth, who died in infancy.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When Maxwell was young his family moved to <a href="/wiki/Glenlair_House" title="Glenlair House">Glenlair</a>, in Kirkcudbrightshire, which his parents had built on the estate which comprised 1,500 acres (610 ha).<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> All indications suggest that Maxwell had maintained an unquenchable curiosity from an early age.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the age of three, everything that moved, shone, or made a noise drew the question: "what's the go o' that?"<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a passage added to a letter from his father to his sister-in-law Jane Cay in 1834, his mother described this innate sense of inquisitiveness: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>He is a very happy man, and has improved much since the weather got moderate; he has great work with doors, locks, keys, etc., and "show me how it doos" is never out of his mouth. He also investigates the hidden course of streams and bell-wires, the way the water gets from the pond through the wall....<sup id="cite_ref-Campbell_p_27_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Campbell_p_27-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Education,_1839–1847"><span id="Education.2C_1839.E2.80.931847"></span>Education, 1839–1847</h3></div> <p>Recognising the boy's potential, Maxwell's mother Frances took responsibility for his early education, which in the <a href="/wiki/Victorian_times" class="mw-redirect" title="Victorian times">Victorian era</a> was largely the job of the woman of the house.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At eight he could recite long passages of <a href="/wiki/John_Milton" title="John Milton">John Milton</a> and the whole of the <a href="/wiki/Psalm_119" title="Psalm 119">119th psalm</a> (176 verses). Indeed, his knowledge of <a href="/wiki/Religious_text" title="Religious text">scripture</a> was already detailed; he could give chapter and verse for almost any quotation from the Psalms. His mother was taken ill with <a href="/wiki/Abdominal_cancer" class="mw-redirect" title="Abdominal cancer">abdominal cancer</a> and, after an unsuccessful operation, died in December 1839 when he was eight years old. His education was then overseen by his father and his father's sister-in-law Jane, both of whom played pivotal roles in his life.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His formal schooling began unsuccessfully under the guidance of a 16-year-old hired tutor. Little is known about the young man hired to instruct Maxwell, except that he treated the younger boy harshly, chiding him for being slow and wayward.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_36-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The tutor was dismissed in November 1841. James' father took him to <a href="/wiki/Robert_Davidson_(inventor)" title="Robert Davidson (inventor)">Robert Davidson</a>'s demonstration of electric propulsion and magnetic force on 12 February 1842, an experience with profound implications for the boy.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Maxwell was sent to the prestigious <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_Academy" title="Edinburgh Academy">Edinburgh Academy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He lodged during term times at the house of his aunt Isabella. During this time his passion for drawing was encouraged by his older cousin Jemima.<sup id="cite_ref-mahon_p_12-14_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mahon_p_12-14-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 10-year-old Maxwell, having been raised in isolation on his father's countryside estate, did not fit in well at school.<sup id="cite_ref-mahon_p_10_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mahon_p_10-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first year had been full, obliging him to join the second year with classmates a year his senior.<sup id="cite_ref-mahon_p_10_40-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mahon_p_10-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His mannerisms and <a href="/wiki/Galloway" title="Galloway">Galloway</a> accent struck the other boys as rustic. Having arrived on his first day of school wearing a pair of homemade shoes and a tunic, he earned the unkind nickname of "<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/daft" class="extiw" title="wikt:daft">Daftie</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He never seemed to resent the epithet, bearing it without complaint for many years.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Social isolation at the Academy ended when he met <a href="/wiki/Lewis_Campbell_(classicist)" title="Lewis Campbell (classicist)">Lewis Campbell</a> and <a href="/wiki/Peter_Guthrie_Tait" title="Peter Guthrie Tait">Peter Guthrie Tait</a>, two boys of a similar age who were to become notable scholars later in life. They remained lifelong friends.<sup id="cite_ref-oxford_506_24-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oxford_506-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Maxwell was fascinated by <a href="/wiki/Geometry" title="Geometry">geometry</a> at an early age, rediscovering the <a href="/wiki/Regular_polyhedra" class="mw-redirect" title="Regular polyhedra">regular polyhedra</a> before he received any formal instruction.<sup id="cite_ref-mahon_p_12-14_39-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mahon_p_12-14-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Despite his winning the school's scripture biography prize in his second year, his academic work remained unnoticed<sup id="cite_ref-mahon_p_12-14_39-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mahon_p_12-14-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> until, at the age of 13, he won the school's mathematical medal and first prize for both English and poetry.<sup id="cite_ref-Campbell,_p_43_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Campbell,_p_43-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Maxwell's interests ranged far beyond the school syllabus and he did not pay particular attention to examination performance.<sup id="cite_ref-Campbell,_p_43_43-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Campbell,_p_43-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He wrote his first <a href="/wiki/Scientific_paper" class="mw-redirect" title="Scientific paper">scientific paper</a> at the age of 14. In it, he described a mechanical means of drawing <a href="/wiki/Curve" title="Curve">mathematical curves</a> with a piece of twine, and the properties of <a href="/wiki/Ellipse" title="Ellipse">ellipses</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cartesian_ovals" class="mw-redirect" title="Cartesian ovals">Cartesian ovals</a>, and related curves with more than two <a href="/wiki/Focus_(geometry)" title="Focus (geometry)">foci</a>. The work,<sup id="cite_ref-oxford_506_24-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oxford_506-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-gardner_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gardner-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of 1846, "On the description of oval curves and those having a plurality of foci"<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was presented to the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society_of_Edinburgh" title="Royal Society of Edinburgh">Royal Society of Edinburgh</a> by <a href="/wiki/James_David_Forbes" title="James David Forbes">James Forbes</a>, a professor of <a href="/wiki/Natural_philosophy" title="Natural philosophy">natural philosophy</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Edinburgh" title="University of Edinburgh">University of Edinburgh</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-oxford_506_24-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oxford_506-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-gardner_44-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gardner-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> because Maxwell was deemed too young to present the work himself.<sup id="cite_ref-Mahon_2003_p_16_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mahon_2003_p_16-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The work was not entirely original, since <a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes" title="René Descartes">René Descartes</a> had also examined the properties of such <a href="/wiki/Multifocal_ellipse" class="mw-redirect" title="Multifocal ellipse">multifocal ellipses</a> in the 17th century, but Maxwell had simplified their construction.<sup id="cite_ref-Mahon_2003_p_16_46-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mahon_2003_p_16-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="University_of_Edinburgh,_1847–1850"><span id="University_of_Edinburgh.2C_1847.E2.80.931850"></span>University of Edinburgh, 1847–1850</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Edinburgh_University_1827.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Edinburgh_University_1827.jpg/220px-Edinburgh_University_1827.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="157" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Edinburgh_University_1827.jpg/330px-Edinburgh_University_1827.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Edinburgh_University_1827.jpg/440px-Edinburgh_University_1827.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1202" data-file-height="860" /></a><figcaption>Old College, University of Edinburgh</figcaption></figure> <p>Maxwell left the Academy in 1847 at age 16 and began attending classes at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Edinburgh" title="University of Edinburgh">University of Edinburgh</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Harman_p_662_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harman_p_662-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He had the opportunity to attend the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">University of Cambridge</a>, but decided, after his first term, to complete the full course of his undergraduate studies at Edinburgh. The academic staff of the university included some highly regarded names; his first-year tutors included <a href="/wiki/Sir_William_Hamilton,_9th_Baronet" title="Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet">Sir William Hamilton</a>, who lectured him on <a href="/wiki/Logic" title="Logic">logic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Metaphysics" title="Metaphysics">metaphysics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Philip_Kelland" title="Philip Kelland">Philip Kelland</a> on mathematics, and <a href="/wiki/James_David_Forbes" title="James David Forbes">James Forbes</a> on <a href="/wiki/Natural_philosophy" title="Natural philosophy">natural philosophy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-oxford_506_24-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oxford_506-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He did not find his classes demanding,<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was, therefore, able to immerse himself in private study during free time at the university and particularly when back home at Glenlair.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There he would experiment with improvised chemical, electric, and magnetic apparatus; however, his chief concerns regarded the properties of <a href="/wiki/Polarized_light" class="mw-redirect" title="Polarized light">polarised light</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He constructed shaped blocks of <a href="/wiki/Gelatine" class="mw-redirect" title="Gelatine">gelatine</a>, subjected them to various <a href="/wiki/Stress_(physics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Stress (physics)">stresses</a>, and with a pair of <a href="/wiki/Nicol_prism" title="Nicol prism">polarising prisms</a> given to him by <a href="/wiki/William_Nicol_(inventor)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Nicol (inventor)">William Nicol</a>, viewed the coloured fringes that had developed within the jelly.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Through this practice he discovered <a href="/wiki/Photoelasticity" title="Photoelasticity">photoelasticity</a>, which is a means of determining the stress distribution within physical structures.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At age 18, Maxwell contributed two papers for the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society_of_Edinburgh" title="Royal Society of Edinburgh">Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh</a>. One of these, "On the Equilibrium of Elastic Solids", laid the foundation for an important discovery later in his life, which was the temporary <a href="/wiki/Double_refraction" class="mw-redirect" title="Double refraction">double refraction</a> produced in <a href="/wiki/Viscosity" title="Viscosity">viscous</a> liquids by <a href="/wiki/Shear_stress" title="Shear stress">shear stress</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His other paper was "Rolling Curves" and, just as with the paper "Oval Curves" that he had written at the Edinburgh Academy, he was again considered too young to stand at the rostrum to present it himself. The paper was delivered to the Royal Society by his tutor Kelland instead.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="University_of_Cambridge,_1850–1856"><span id="University_of_Cambridge.2C_1850.E2.80.931856"></span>University of Cambridge, 1850–1856</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:YoungJamesClerkMaxwell.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/YoungJamesClerkMaxwell.jpg/170px-YoungJamesClerkMaxwell.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="205" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/YoungJamesClerkMaxwell.jpg/255px-YoungJamesClerkMaxwell.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/YoungJamesClerkMaxwell.jpg/340px-YoungJamesClerkMaxwell.jpg 2x" data-file-width="425" data-file-height="513" /></a><figcaption>A young Maxwell at <a href="/wiki/Trinity_College,_Cambridge" title="Trinity College, Cambridge">Trinity College, Cambridge</a>, holding one of his <a href="/wiki/Colour_wheel" class="mw-redirect" title="Colour wheel">colour wheels</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In October 1850, already an accomplished mathematician, Maxwell left Scotland for the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">University of Cambridge</a>. He initially attended <a href="/wiki/Peterhouse,_Cambridge" title="Peterhouse, Cambridge">Peterhouse</a>, but before the end of his first term transferred to <a href="/wiki/Trinity_College,_Cambridge" title="Trinity College, Cambridge">Trinity</a>, where he believed it would be easier to obtain a <a href="/wiki/Fellow" title="Fellow">fellowship</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At Trinity he was elected to the elite secret society known as the <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_Apostles" title="Cambridge Apostles">Cambridge Apostles</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Maxwell's intellectual understanding of his Christian faith and of science grew rapidly during his Cambridge years. He joined the "Apostles", an exclusive debating society of the intellectual elite, where through his essays he sought to work out this understanding. </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Now my great plan, which was conceived of old, ... is to let nothing be wilfully left unexamined. Nothing is to be holy ground consecrated to Stationary Faith, whether positive or negative. All fallow land is to be ploughed up and a regular system of rotation followed. ... Never hide anything, be it weed or no, nor seem to wish it hidden. ... Again I assert the Right of Trespass on any plot of Holy Ground which any man has set apart. ... Now I am convinced that no one but a Christian can actually purge his land of these holy spots. ... I do not say that no Christians have enclosed places of this sort. Many have a great deal, and every one has some. But there are extensive and important tracts in the territory of the Scoffer, the Pantheist, the Quietist, Formalist, Dogmatist, Sensualist, and the rest, which are openly and solemnly Tabooed. ..." </p><p>Christianity—that is, the religion of the Bible—is the only scheme or form of belief which disavows any possessions on such a tenure. Here alone all is free. You may fly to the ends of the world and find no God but the Author of Salvation. You may search the Scriptures and not find a text to stop you in your explorations. ... </p><p> The Old Testament and the Mosaic Law and Judaism are commonly supposed to be "Tabooed" by the orthodox. Sceptics pretend to have read them and have found certain witty objections ... which too many of the orthodox unread admit, and shut up the subject as haunted. But a Candle is coming to drive out all Ghosts and Bugbears. Let us follow the light.<sup id="cite_ref-MIT_IAP_Seminar_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MIT_IAP_Seminar-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>In the summer of his third year, Maxwell spent some time at the <a href="/wiki/Otley,_Suffolk" title="Otley, Suffolk">Suffolk</a> home of the Rev. <a href="/wiki/Charles_Benjamin_Tayler" title="Charles Benjamin Tayler">C. B. Tayler</a>, the uncle of a classmate, G. W. H. Tayler. The love of God shown by the family impressed Maxwell, particularly after he was nursed back from ill health by the minister and his wife.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On his return to Cambridge, Maxwell writes to his recent host a chatty and affectionate letter including the following testimony,<sup id="cite_ref-MIT_IAP_Seminar_57-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MIT_IAP_Seminar-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>... I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me, and ... if I escape, it is only by God's grace helping me to get rid of myself, partially in science, more completely in society, —but not perfectly except by committing myself to God ...</p></blockquote> <p>In November 1851, Maxwell studied under <a href="/wiki/William_Hopkins" title="William Hopkins">William Hopkins</a>, whose success in nurturing mathematical genius had earned him the nickname of "<a href="/wiki/Senior_Wrangler_(University_of_Cambridge)" class="mw-redirect" title="Senior Wrangler (University of Cambridge)">senior wrangler</a>-maker".<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1854, Maxwell graduated from Trinity with a degree in mathematics. He scored second highest in the final examination, coming behind <a href="/wiki/Edward_Routh" title="Edward Routh">Edward Routh</a> and earning himself the title of Second Wrangler. He was later declared equal with Routh in the more exacting ordeal of the <a href="/wiki/Smith%27s_Prize" title="Smith's Prize">Smith's Prize</a> examination.<sup id="cite_ref-Tolstoy_p_62_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tolstoy_p_62-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Immediately after earning his degree, Maxwell read his paper "On the Transformation of Surfaces by Bending" to the <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_Philosophical_Society" title="Cambridge Philosophical Society">Cambridge Philosophical Society</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This is one of the few purely mathematical papers he had written, demonstrating his growing stature as a mathematician.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Maxwell decided to remain at Trinity after graduating and applied for a fellowship, which was a process that he could expect to take a couple of years.<sup id="cite_ref-Mahon_p_47-48_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mahon_p_47-48-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Buoyed by his success as a research student, he would be free, apart from some tutoring and examining duties, to pursue scientific interests at his own leisure.<sup id="cite_ref-Mahon_p_47-48_63-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mahon_p_47-48-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The nature and perception of colour was one such interest which he had begun at the University of Edinburgh while he was a student of Forbes.<sup id="cite_ref-Mahon_p_51_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mahon_p_51-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With the coloured <a href="/wiki/Spinning_top" title="Spinning top">spinning tops</a> invented by Forbes, Maxwell was able to demonstrate that white light would result from a mixture of red, green, and blue light.<sup id="cite_ref-Mahon_p_51_64-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mahon_p_51-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His paper "Experiments on Colour" laid out the principles of colour combination and was presented to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in March 1855.<sup id="cite_ref-Tolstoy_p_64-65_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tolstoy_p_64-65-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Maxwell was this time able to deliver it himself.<sup id="cite_ref-Tolstoy_p_64-65_65-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tolstoy_p_64-65-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Maxwell was made a fellow of Trinity on 10 October 1855, sooner than was the norm,<sup id="cite_ref-Tolstoy_p_64-65_65-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tolstoy_p_64-65-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was asked to prepare lectures on <a href="/wiki/Hydrostatics" title="Hydrostatics">hydrostatics</a> and <a href="/wiki/Optics" title="Optics">optics</a> and to set examination papers.<sup id="cite_ref-Glazebrook_p_43-46_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Glazebrook_p_43-46-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The following February he was urged by Forbes to apply for the newly vacant <a href="/wiki/Chair_(academic)" class="mw-redirect" title="Chair (academic)">Chair</a> of Natural Philosophy at <a href="/wiki/Marischal_College" title="Marischal College">Marischal College</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aberdeen" title="Aberdeen">Aberdeen</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Campbell_p_126_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Campbell_p_126-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His father assisted him in the task of preparing the necessary references, but died on 2 April at Glenlair before either knew the result of Maxwell's candidacy.<sup id="cite_ref-Campbell_p_126_68-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Campbell_p_126-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He accepted the professorship at Aberdeen, leaving Cambridge in November 1856.<sup id="cite_ref-Glazebrook_p_43-46_66-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Glazebrook_p_43-46-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Marischal_College,_Aberdeen,_1856–1860"><span id="Marischal_College.2C_Aberdeen.2C_1856.E2.80.931860"></span>Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1856–1860</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Saturn_HST_2004-03-22.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Saturn_HST_2004-03-22.jpg/220px-Saturn_HST_2004-03-22.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Saturn_HST_2004-03-22.jpg/330px-Saturn_HST_2004-03-22.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Saturn_HST_2004-03-22.jpg/440px-Saturn_HST_2004-03-22.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2200" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>Maxwell proved that the <a href="/wiki/Rings_of_Saturn" title="Rings of Saturn">rings of Saturn</a> were made of numerous small particles.</figcaption></figure> <p>The 25-year-old Maxwell was a good 15 years younger than any other professor at Marischal. He engaged himself with his new responsibilities as head of a department, devising the syllabus and preparing lectures.<sup id="cite_ref-Mahon_p_69-71_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mahon_p_69-71-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He committed himself to lecturing 15 hours a week, including a weekly <i><a href="/wiki/Pro_bono" title="Pro bono">pro bono</a></i> lecture to the local working men's college.<sup id="cite_ref-Mahon_p_69-71_69-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mahon_p_69-71-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He lived in Aberdeen with his cousin <a href="/wiki/William_Dyce_Cay" title="William Dyce Cay">William Dyce Cay</a>, a Scottish civil engineer, during the six months of the academic year and spent the summers at Glenlair, which he had inherited from his father.<sup id="cite_ref-preface_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-preface-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Later, his former student described Maxwell as follows: </p> <blockquote><p>In the late 1850s shortly before 9 am any winter’s morning you might well have seen the young James Clerk Maxwell, in his mid to late 20s, a man of middling height, with frame strongly knit, and a certain spring and elasticity in his gait; dressed for comfortable ease rather than elegance; a face expressive at once of sagacity and good humour, but overlaid with a deep shade of thoughtfulness; features boldly put pleasingly marked; eyes dark and glowing; hair and beard perfectly black, and forming a strong contrast to the pallor of his complexion.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:James_Clark_Maxwell_and_his_wife_by_Jemima_Blackburn.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/James_Clark_Maxwell_and_his_wife_by_Jemima_Blackburn.jpg/220px-James_Clark_Maxwell_and_his_wife_by_Jemima_Blackburn.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="290" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/James_Clark_Maxwell_and_his_wife_by_Jemima_Blackburn.jpg/330px-James_Clark_Maxwell_and_his_wife_by_Jemima_Blackburn.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/James_Clark_Maxwell_and_his_wife_by_Jemima_Blackburn.jpg/440px-James_Clark_Maxwell_and_his_wife_by_Jemima_Blackburn.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="1584" /></a><figcaption>James Clerk Maxwell and his wife, painted by <a href="/wiki/Jemima_Blackburn" title="Jemima Blackburn">Jemima Blackburn</a></figcaption></figure> <p>He focused his attention on a problem that had eluded scientists for 200 years: the nature of <a href="/wiki/Rings_of_Saturn" title="Rings of Saturn">Saturn's rings</a>. It was unknown how they could remain stable without breaking up, drifting away or crashing into Saturn.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The problem took on a particular resonance at that time because <a href="/wiki/St_John%27s_College,_Cambridge" title="St John's College, Cambridge">St John's College, Cambridge</a>, had chosen it as the topic for the 1857 <a href="/wiki/Adams_Prize" title="Adams Prize">Adams Prize</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-oxford_508_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oxford_508-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Maxwell devoted two years to studying the problem, proving that a regular solid ring could not be stable, while a fluid ring would be forced by wave action to break up into blobs. Since neither was observed, he concluded that the rings must be composed of numerous small particles he called "brick-bats", each independently orbiting Saturn.<sup id="cite_ref-oxford_508_72-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oxford_508-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Maxwell was awarded the £130 Adams Prize in 1859 for his essay "On the stability of the motion of Saturn's rings";<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he was the only entrant to have made enough headway to submit an entry.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His work was so detailed and convincing that when <a href="/wiki/George_Biddell_Airy" title="George Biddell Airy">George Biddell Airy</a> read it he commented, "It is one of the most remarkable applications of mathematics to physics that I have ever seen."<sup id="cite_ref-mactutor_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mactutor-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was considered the final word on the issue until direct observations by the <i><a href="/wiki/Voyager_program" title="Voyager program">Voyager</a></i> flybys of the 1980s confirmed Maxwell's prediction that the rings were composed of particles.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is now understood, however, that the rings' particles are not totally stable, being pulled by gravity onto Saturn. The rings are expected to vanish entirely over the next 300 million years.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1857 Maxwell befriended the Reverend Daniel Dewar, who was then the Principal of Marischal.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Through him Maxwell met Dewar's daughter, <a href="/wiki/Katherine_Clerk_Maxwell" title="Katherine Clerk Maxwell">Katherine Mary Dewar</a>. They were engaged in February 1858 and married in Aberdeen on 2 June 1858. On the marriage record, Maxwell is listed as Professor of Natural Philosophy in Marischal College, Aberdeen.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Katherine was seven years Maxwell's senior. Comparatively little is known of her, although it is known that she helped in his lab and worked on experiments in <a href="/wiki/Viscosity" title="Viscosity">viscosity</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Maxwell's biographer and friend, Lewis Campbell, adopted an uncharacteristic reticence on the subject of Katherine, though describing their married life as "one of unexampled devotion".<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1860 Marischal College merged with the neighbouring <a href="/wiki/King%27s_College,_Aberdeen" title="King's College, Aberdeen">King's College</a> to form the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Aberdeen" title="University of Aberdeen">University of Aberdeen</a>. There was no room for two professors of Natural Philosophy, so Maxwell, despite his scientific reputation, found himself laid off. He was unsuccessful in applying for Forbes's recently vacated chair at Edinburgh, the post instead going to <a href="/wiki/Peter_Tait_(physicist)" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter Tait (physicist)">Tait</a>. Maxwell was granted the Chair of Natural Philosophy at <a href="/wiki/King%27s_College,_London" class="mw-redirect" title="King's College, London">King's College, London</a>, instead.<sup id="cite_ref-Glazebrook_p_54_82-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Glazebrook_p_54-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After recovering from a near-fatal bout of <a href="/wiki/Smallpox" title="Smallpox">smallpox</a> in 1860, he moved to London with his wife.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="King's_College,_London,_1860–1865"><span id="King.27s_College.2C_London.2C_1860.E2.80.931865"></span>King's College, London, 1860–1865</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Maxwell_IEEE_Plaque_KCL.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Maxwell_IEEE_Plaque_KCL.jpg/290px-Maxwell_IEEE_Plaque_KCL.jpg" decoding="async" width="290" height="218" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Maxwell_IEEE_Plaque_KCL.jpg/435px-Maxwell_IEEE_Plaque_KCL.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Maxwell_IEEE_Plaque_KCL.jpg/580px-Maxwell_IEEE_Plaque_KCL.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="900" /></a><figcaption>Commemoration of Maxwell's equations at King's College. Two identical <a href="/wiki/Institute_of_Electrical_and_Electronics_Engineers" title="Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers">IEEE</a> Milestone Plaques are at Maxwell's birthplace in Edinburgh and the family home at Glenlair.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>Maxwell's time at King's was probably the most productive of his career. He was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society" title="Royal Society">Royal Society's</a> <a href="/wiki/Rumford_Medal" title="Rumford Medal">Rumford Medal</a> in 1860 for his work on colour and was later elected to the Society in 1861.<sup id="cite_ref-Tolstoy_p_103-104_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tolstoy_p_103-104-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This period of his life would see him display the world's first light-fast colour photograph, further develop his ideas on the <a href="/wiki/Viscosity" title="Viscosity">viscosity</a> of gases, and propose a system of defining physical quantities—now known as <a href="/wiki/Dimensional_analysis" title="Dimensional analysis">dimensional analysis</a>. Maxwell would often attend lectures at the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Institution" title="Royal Institution">Royal Institution</a>, where he came into regular contact with <a href="/wiki/Michael_Faraday" title="Michael Faraday">Michael Faraday</a>. The relationship between the two men could not be described as being close, because Faraday was 40 years Maxwell's senior and showed signs of <a href="/wiki/Senility" class="mw-redirect" title="Senility">senility</a>. They nevertheless maintained a strong respect for each other's talents.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>This time is especially noteworthy for the advances Maxwell made in the fields of electricity and magnetism. He examined the nature of both electric and magnetic fields in his two-part paper "<a href="/wiki/On_physical_lines_of_force" class="mw-redirect" title="On physical lines of force">On physical lines of force</a>", which was published in 1861. In it, he provided a conceptual model for <a href="/wiki/Electromagnetic_induction" title="Electromagnetic induction">electromagnetic induction</a>, consisting of tiny spinning cells of <a href="/wiki/Magnetic_flux" title="Magnetic flux">magnetic flux</a>. Two more parts were later added to and published in that same paper in early 1862. In the first additional part, he discussed the nature of <a href="/wiki/Electrostatics" title="Electrostatics">electrostatics</a> and <a href="/wiki/Displacement_current" title="Displacement current">displacement current</a>. In the second additional part, he dealt with the rotation of the plane of the <a href="/wiki/Polarization_(waves)" title="Polarization (waves)">polarisation of light</a> in a magnetic field, a phenomenon that had been discovered by Faraday and is now known as the <a href="/wiki/Faraday_effect" title="Faraday effect">Faraday effect</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Later_years,_1865–1879"><span id="Later_years.2C_1865.E2.80.931879"></span>Later years, 1865–1879</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:JCM_Grave-1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/JCM_Grave-1.jpg/220px-JCM_Grave-1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="298" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/JCM_Grave-1.jpg/330px-JCM_Grave-1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/JCM_Grave-1.jpg/440px-JCM_Grave-1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="756" data-file-height="1024" /></a><figcaption>The gravestone at Parton Kirk (Galloway) of James Clerk Maxwell, his parents and his wife</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1865 Maxwell resigned the chair at King's College, London, and returned to Glenlair with Katherine. In his paper "On governors" (1868) he mathematically described the behaviour of <a href="/wiki/Governor_(device)" title="Governor (device)">governors</a>—devices that control the speed of steam engines—thereby establishing the theoretical basis of control engineering.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his paper "On reciprocal figures, frames and diagrams of forces" (1870) he discussed the rigidity of various designs of lattice.<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He wrote the textbook <i>Theory of Heat</i> (1871) and the treatise <i>Matter and Motion</i> (1876). Maxwell was also the first to make explicit use of <a href="/wiki/Dimensional_analysis" title="Dimensional analysis">dimensional analysis</a>, in 1871.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1871 he returned to Cambridge to become the first <a href="/wiki/Cavendish_Professor_of_Physics" title="Cavendish Professor of Physics">Cavendish Professor of Physics</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Maxwell was put in charge of the development of the <a href="/wiki/Cavendish_Laboratory" title="Cavendish Laboratory">Cavendish Laboratory</a>, supervising every step in the progress of the building and of the purchase of the collection of apparatus.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of Maxwell's last great contributions to science was the editing (with copious original notes) of the research of <a href="/wiki/Henry_Cavendish" title="Henry Cavendish">Henry Cavendish</a>, from which it appeared that Cavendish researched, amongst other things, such questions as the <a href="/wiki/Density" title="Density">density</a> of the Earth and the composition of water.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was elected as a member to the <a href="/wiki/American_Philosophical_Society" title="American Philosophical Society">American Philosophical Society</a> in 1876.<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2></div> <p>In April 1879 Maxwell began to have difficulty in swallowing, the first symptom of his fatal illness.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Maxwell died in Cambridge of abdominal cancer on 5 November 1879 at the age of 48.<sup id="cite_ref-Harman_p_662_47-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harman_p_662-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His mother had died at the same age of the same type of cancer.<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The minister who regularly visited him in his last weeks was astonished at his lucidity and the immense power and scope of his memory, but comments more particularly, </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>... his illness drew out the whole heart and soul and spirit of the man: his firm and undoubting faith in the Incarnation and all its results; in the full sufficiency of the Atonement; in the work of the Holy Spirit. He had gauged and fathomed all the schemes and systems of philosophy, and had found them utterly empty and unsatisfying—"unworkable" was his own word about them—and he turned with simple faith to the Gospel of the Saviour.</p></blockquote> <p>As death approached Maxwell told a Cambridge colleague,<sup id="cite_ref-MIT_IAP_Seminar_57-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MIT_IAP_Seminar-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>I have been thinking how very gently I have always been dealt with. I have never had a violent shove all my life. The only desire which I can have is like David to serve my own generation by the will of God, and then fall asleep.</p></blockquote> <p>Maxwell is buried at <a href="/wiki/Parton,_Dumfries_and_Galloway" title="Parton, Dumfries and Galloway">Parton</a> Kirk, near <a href="/wiki/Castle_Douglas" title="Castle Douglas">Castle Douglas</a> in Galloway close to where he grew up.<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The extended biography <i>The Life of James Clerk Maxwell</i>, by his former schoolfellow and lifelong friend Professor <a href="/wiki/Lewis_Campbell_(classicist)" title="Lewis Campbell (classicist)">Lewis Campbell</a>, was published in 1882.<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His collected works were issued in two volumes by the <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_University_Press" title="Cambridge University Press">Cambridge University Press</a> in 1890.<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The executors of Maxwell's estate were his physician <a href="/wiki/George_Edward_Paget" title="George Edward Paget">George Edward Paget</a>, <a href="/wiki/G._G._Stokes" class="mw-redirect" title="G. G. Stokes">G. G. Stokes</a>, and Colin Mackenzie, who was Maxwell's cousin. Overburdened with work, Stokes passed Maxwell's papers to <a href="/wiki/William_Garnett_(professor)" title="William Garnett (professor)">William Garnett</a>, who had effective custody of the papers until about 1884.<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There is a memorial inscription to him near the choir screen at <a href="/wiki/Westminster_Abbey" title="Westminster Abbey">Westminster Abbey</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:James_Clark_Maxwell_by_Jemima_Blackburn.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/James_Clark_Maxwell_by_Jemima_Blackburn.jpg/220px-James_Clark_Maxwell_by_Jemima_Blackburn.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="300" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/James_Clark_Maxwell_by_Jemima_Blackburn.jpg/330px-James_Clark_Maxwell_by_Jemima_Blackburn.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/James_Clark_Maxwell_by_Jemima_Blackburn.jpg/440px-James_Clark_Maxwell_by_Jemima_Blackburn.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="1636" /></a><figcaption>James Clerk Maxwell, painted by <a href="/wiki/Jemima_Blackburn" title="Jemima Blackburn">Jemima Blackburn</a></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h3></div> <p>As a great lover of <a href="/wiki/Scottish_poetry" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish poetry">Scottish poetry</a>, Maxwell memorised poems and wrote his own.<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The best known is <i>Rigid Body Sings</i>, closely based on "<a href="/wiki/Comin%27_Through_the_Rye" class="mw-redirect" title="Comin' Through the Rye">Comin' Through the Rye</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Burns" title="Robert Burns">Robert Burns</a>, which he apparently used to sing while accompanying himself on a guitar. It has the opening lines<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>Gin a body meet a body<br /> Flyin' through the air.<br /> Gin a body hit a body,<br /> Will it fly? And where? </p> </div></blockquote> <p>A collection of his poems was published by his friend <a href="/wiki/Lewis_Campbell_(classicist)" title="Lewis Campbell (classicist)">Lewis Campbell</a> in 1882.<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Descriptions of Maxwell remark upon his remarkable intellectual qualities being matched by social awkwardness.<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> Maxwell wrote the following aphorism for his own conduct as a scientist: </p><blockquote><p>He that would enjoy life and act with freedom must have the work of the day continually before his eyes. Not yesterday's work, lest he fall into despair, not to-morrow's, lest he become a visionary not that which ends with the day, which is a worldly work, nor yet that only which remains to eternity, for by it he cannot shape his action. Happy is the man who can recognize in the work of to-day a connected portion of the work of life, and an embodiment of the work of eternity. The foundations of his confidence are unchangeable, for he has been made a partaker of Infinity. He strenuously works out his daily enterprises, because the present is given him for a possession.<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Maxwell was an evangelical <a href="/wiki/Presbyterianism" title="Presbyterianism">Presbyterian</a> and in his later years became an <a href="/wiki/Elder_of_the_Church_of_Scotland" class="mw-redirect" title="Elder of the Church of Scotland">Elder</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_Scotland" title="Church of Scotland">Church of Scotland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Aberdeen_University_Press_109-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Aberdeen_University_Press-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Maxwell's religious beliefs and related activities have been the focus of a number of papers.<sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Rel00_111-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rel00-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Rel1_112-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rel1-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Attending both Church of Scotland (his father's denomination) and <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Episcopal_Church" title="Scottish Episcopal Church">Episcopalian</a> (his mother's denomination) services as a child, Maxwell underwent an <a href="/wiki/Evangelicalism" title="Evangelicalism">evangelical</a> conversion in April 1853. One facet of this conversion may have aligned him with an <a href="/wiki/Antipositivism" title="Antipositivism">antipositivist</a> position.<sup id="cite_ref-Rel1_112-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rel1-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Scientific_legacy">Scientific legacy</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Electromagnetism">Electromagnetism</h3></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Maxwell%27s_equations" title="Maxwell's equations">Maxwell's equations</a> and <a href="/wiki/Electromagnetism" title="Electromagnetism">Electromagnetism</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Postcard-from-Maxwell-to-Tait.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Postcard-from-Maxwell-to-Tait.jpg/220px-Postcard-from-Maxwell-to-Tait.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="164" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Postcard-from-Maxwell-to-Tait.jpg/330px-Postcard-from-Maxwell-to-Tait.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Postcard-from-Maxwell-to-Tait.jpg 2x" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="306" /></a><figcaption>A postcard from Maxwell to <a href="/wiki/Peter_Guthrie_Tait" title="Peter Guthrie Tait">Peter Tait</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Maxwell had studied and commented on electricity and magnetism as early as 1855 when his paper "On Faraday's lines of force" was read to the <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_Philosophical_Society" title="Cambridge Philosophical Society">Cambridge Philosophical Society</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-114" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The paper presented a simplified model of Faraday's work and how electricity and magnetism are related. He reduced all of the current knowledge into a linked set of <a href="/wiki/Differential_equation" title="Differential equation">differential equations</a> with 20 equations in 20 variables. This work was later published as "<a href="/wiki/On_Physical_Lines_of_Force" title="On Physical Lines of Force">On Physical Lines of Force</a>" in March 1861.<sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Around 1862, while lecturing at King's College, Maxwell calculated that the speed of propagation of an electromagnetic field is approximately that of the <a href="/wiki/Speed_of_light" title="Speed of light">speed of light</a>. He considered this to be more than just a coincidence, commenting, "We can scarcely avoid the conclusion that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena.<sup id="cite_ref-mactutor_75-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mactutor-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Working on the problem further, Maxwell showed that the <a href="/wiki/Electromagnetic_wave_equation" title="Electromagnetic wave equation">equations</a> predict the existence of waves of <a href="/wiki/Electromagnetic_radiation" title="Electromagnetic radiation">oscillating electric and magnetic fields</a> that travel through empty space at a speed that could be predicted from simple electrical experiments; using the data available at the time, Maxwell obtained a velocity of 310,740,000 metres per second (1.0195<span style="margin:0 .15em 0 .25em">×</span>10<sup>9</sup> ft/s).<sup id="cite_ref-116" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his 1865 paper "<a href="/wiki/A_Dynamical_Theory_of_the_Electromagnetic_Field" title="A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field">A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field</a>", 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".<sup id="cite_ref-ADTEF_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ADTEF-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His famous twenty equations, in their modern form of <a href="/wiki/Partial_differential_equation" title="Partial differential equation">partial differential equations</a>, first appeared in fully developed form in his textbook <i><a href="/wiki/A_Treatise_on_Electricity_and_Magnetism" title="A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism">A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism</a></i> in 1873.<sup id="cite_ref-117" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most of this work was done by Maxwell at Glenlair during the period between holding his London post and his taking up the Cavendish chair.<sup id="cite_ref-mactutor_75-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mactutor-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Heaviside" title="Oliver Heaviside">Oliver Heaviside</a> reduced the complexity of Maxwell's theory down to four <a href="/wiki/Partial_differential_equation" title="Partial differential equation">partial differential equations</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> known now collectively as Maxwell's Laws or <a href="/wiki/Maxwell%27s_equations" title="Maxwell's equations">Maxwell's equations</a>. Although potentials became much less popular in the nineteenth century,<sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the use of scalar and vector potentials is now standard in the solution of Maxwell's equations.<sup id="cite_ref-120" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-120"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As Barrett and Grimes (1995) describe:<sup id="cite_ref-121" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-121"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <blockquote><p>Maxwell expressed electromagnetism in the algebra of <a href="/wiki/Quaternions" class="mw-redirect" title="Quaternions">quaternions</a> and made the electromagnetic potential the centerpiece of his theory. In 1881 Heaviside replaced the electromagnetic potential field by force fields as the centerpiece of electromagnetic theory. According to Heaviside, the electromagnetic potential field was arbitrary and needed to be "assassinated". (<i>sic</i>) A few years later there was a debate between Heaviside and <a href="/wiki/Peter_Guthrie_Tait" title="Peter Guthrie Tait">[Peter Guthrie] Tate</a> (<i>sic</i>) about the relative merits of <a href="/wiki/Vector_analysis" class="mw-redirect" title="Vector analysis">vector analysis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Quaternions" class="mw-redirect" title="Quaternions">quaternions</a>. The result was the realization that there was no need for the greater physical insights provided by <a href="/wiki/Quaternions" class="mw-redirect" title="Quaternions">quaternions</a> if the theory was purely local, and vector analysis became commonplace. </p></blockquote> <p>Maxwell was proved correct, and his quantitative connection between light and electromagnetism is considered one of the great accomplishments of 19th-century <a href="/wiki/Mathematical_physics" title="Mathematical physics">mathematical physics</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-122" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-122"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Maxwell also introduced the concept of the <i>electromagnetic field</i> in comparison to force lines that Faraday described.<sup id="cite_ref-tef_123-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tef-123"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By understanding the propagation of electromagnetism as a field emitted by active particles, Maxwell could advance his work on light. At that time, Maxwell believed that the propagation of light required a medium for the waves, dubbed the <a href="/wiki/Luminiferous_aether" title="Luminiferous aether">luminiferous aether</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-tef_123-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tef-123"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Over time, the existence of such a medium, permeating all space and yet apparently undetectable by mechanical means, proved impossible to reconcile with experiments such as the <a href="/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_experiment" title="Michelson–Morley experiment">Michelson–Morley experiment</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Moreover, it seemed to require an absolute <a href="/wiki/Frame_of_reference" title="Frame of reference">frame of reference</a> in which the equations were valid, with the distasteful result that the equations changed form for a moving observer. These difficulties inspired <a href="/wiki/Albert_Einstein" title="Albert Einstein">Albert Einstein</a> to formulate the theory of <a href="/wiki/Special_relativity" title="Special relativity">special relativity</a>; in the process, Einstein dispensed with the requirement of a stationary luminiferous aether.<sup id="cite_ref-125" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-125"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Colour_vision">Colour vision</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tartan_Ribbon.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Tartan_Ribbon.jpg/220px-Tartan_Ribbon.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Tartan_Ribbon.jpg/330px-Tartan_Ribbon.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Tartan_Ribbon.jpg/440px-Tartan_Ribbon.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1100" data-file-height="900" /></a><figcaption>First durable colour photographic image, demonstrated by Maxwell in an 1861 lecture</figcaption></figure> <p>Along with most physicists of the time, Maxwell had a strong interest in psychology. Following in the steps of <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Newton" title="Isaac Newton">Isaac Newton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Young_(scientist)" title="Thomas Young (scientist)">Thomas Young</a>, he was particularly interested in the study of <a href="/wiki/Colour_vision" class="mw-redirect" title="Colour vision">colour vision</a>. From 1855 to 1872, Maxwell published at intervals a series of investigations concerning the perception of colour, <a href="/wiki/Colour-blindness" class="mw-redirect" title="Colour-blindness">colour-blindness</a>, and colour theory, and was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Rumford_Medal" title="Rumford Medal">Rumford Medal</a> for "On the Theory of Colour Vision".<sup id="cite_ref-126" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-126"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Newton" title="Isaac Newton">Isaac Newton</a> had demonstrated, using prisms, that white light, such as <a href="/wiki/Sunlight" title="Sunlight">sunlight</a>, is composed of a number of <a href="/wiki/Spectral_color" title="Spectral color">monochromatic components</a> which could then be recombined into white light.<sup id="cite_ref-127" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-127"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Newton also showed that an orange paint made of yellow and red could look exactly like a monochromatic orange light, although being composed of two monochromatic yellow and red lights. Hence the paradox that puzzled physicists of the time: two complex lights (composed of more than one monochromatic light) could look alike but be physically different, called <i><a href="/wiki/Metamerism_(color)" title="Metamerism (color)">metameres</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Young_(scientist)" title="Thomas Young (scientist)">Thomas Young</a> later proposed that this paradox could be explained by colours being perceived through a limited number of channels in the eyes, which he proposed to be threefold,<sup id="cite_ref-128" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-128"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the <i><a href="/wiki/Young%E2%80%93Helmholtz_theory" title="Young–Helmholtz theory">trichromatic colour theory</a></i>. Maxwell used the recently developed <a href="/wiki/Linear_algebra" title="Linear algebra">linear algebra</a> to prove Young's theory. Any monochromatic light stimulating three receptors should be able to be equally stimulated by a set of three different monochromatic lights (in fact, by any set of three different lights). He demonstrated that to be the case,<sup id="cite_ref-129" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-129"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> inventing colour matching experiments and <a href="/wiki/Colourimetry" class="mw-redirect" title="Colourimetry">Colourimetry</a>. </p><p>Maxwell was also interested in applying his theory of colour perception, namely in <a href="/wiki/Colour_photography" class="mw-redirect" title="Colour photography">colour photography</a>. Stemming directly from his psychological work on colour perception: if a sum of any three lights could reproduce any perceivable colour, then colour photographs could be produced with a set of three coloured filters. In the course of his 1855 paper, Maxwell proposed that, if three black-and-white photographs of a scene were taken through <a href="/wiki/RGB_color_model" title="RGB color model">red, green, and blue</a> <a href="/wiki/Filter_(optics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Filter (optics)">filters</a>, and transparent prints of the images were projected onto a screen using three projectors equipped with similar filters, when superimposed on the screen the result would be perceived by the human eye as a complete reproduction of all the colours in the scene.<sup id="cite_ref-130" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-130"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During an 1861 Royal Institution lecture on colour theory, Maxwell presented the world's first demonstration of colour photography by this principle of three-colour analysis and synthesis. <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Sutton_(photographer)" title="Thomas Sutton (photographer)">Thomas Sutton</a>, inventor of the <a href="/wiki/Single-lens_reflex_camera" title="Single-lens reflex camera">single-lens reflex camera</a>, took the picture. He photographed a <a href="/wiki/Tartan" title="Tartan">tartan</a> ribbon three times, through red, green, and blue filters, also making a fourth photograph through a yellow filter, which, according to Maxwell's account, was not used in the demonstration. Because Sutton's <a href="/wiki/Photographic_plate" title="Photographic plate">photographic plates</a> were insensitive to red and barely sensitive to green, the results of this pioneering experiment were far from perfect. It was remarked in the published account of the lecture that "if the red and green images had been as fully photographed as the blue", it "would have been a truly-coloured image of the riband. By finding photographic materials more sensitive to the less refrangible rays, the representation of the colours of objects might be greatly improved."<sup id="cite_ref-Tolstoy_p_103-104_85-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tolstoy_p_103-104-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-131" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-131"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-132" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-132"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Researchers in 1961 concluded that the seemingly impossible partial success of the red-filtered exposure was due to <a href="/wiki/Ultraviolet" title="Ultraviolet">ultraviolet</a> light, which is strongly reflected by some red dyes, not entirely blocked by the red filter used, and within the range of sensitivity of the <a href="/wiki/Collodion_process" title="Collodion process">wet collodion process</a> Sutton employed.<sup id="cite_ref-133" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-133"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>133<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Kinetic_theory_and_thermodynamics">Kinetic theory and thermodynamics</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Maxwell%E2%80%93Boltzmann_distribution" title="Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution">Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Maxwell%27s_demon.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Maxwell%27s_demon.svg/220px-Maxwell%27s_demon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="81" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Maxwell%27s_demon.svg/330px-Maxwell%27s_demon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Maxwell%27s_demon.svg/440px-Maxwell%27s_demon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="608" data-file-height="224" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon" title="Maxwell's demon">Maxwell's demon</a>, a thought experiment where entropy decreases</figcaption></figure> <p>Maxwell also investigated the <a href="/wiki/Kinetic_theory_of_gases" title="Kinetic theory of gases">kinetic theory</a> of gases. Originating with <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Bernoulli" title="Daniel Bernoulli">Daniel Bernoulli</a>, this theory was advanced by the successive labours of <a href="/wiki/John_Herapath" title="John Herapath">John Herapath</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_James_Waterston" title="John James Waterston">John James Waterston</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_Prescott_Joule" title="James Prescott Joule">James Joule</a>, and particularly <a href="/wiki/Rudolf_Clausius" title="Rudolf Clausius">Rudolf Clausius</a>, to such an extent as to put its general accuracy beyond a doubt; but it received enormous development from Maxwell, who in this field appeared as an experimenter (on the laws of gaseous friction) as well as a mathematician.<sup id="cite_ref-134" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-134"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>134<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Between 1859 and 1866, he developed the theory of the distributions of velocities in particles of a gas, work later generalised by <a href="/wiki/Ludwig_Boltzmann" title="Ludwig Boltzmann">Ludwig Boltzmann</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-135" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-135"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>135<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-136" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-136"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>136<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The formula, called the <a href="/wiki/Maxwell%E2%80%93Boltzmann_distribution" title="Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution">Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution</a>, gives the fraction of gas molecules moving at a specified velocity at any given temperature. In the <a href="/wiki/Kinetic_theory_of_gases" title="Kinetic theory of gases">kinetic theory</a>, temperatures and heat involve only molecular movement. This approach generalised the previously established laws of thermodynamics and explained existing observations and experiments in a better way than had been achieved previously. His work on <a href="/wiki/Thermodynamics" title="Thermodynamics">thermodynamics</a> led him to devise the <a href="/wiki/Thought_experiment" title="Thought experiment">thought experiment</a> that came to be known as <a href="/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon" title="Maxwell's demon">Maxwell's demon</a>, where the <a href="/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics" title="Second law of thermodynamics">second law of thermodynamics</a> is violated by an imaginary being capable of sorting particles by energy.<sup id="cite_ref-137" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-137"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>137<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1871, he established <a href="/wiki/Maxwell_relations" title="Maxwell relations">Maxwell's thermodynamic relations</a>, which are statements of equality among the second derivatives of the <a href="/wiki/Thermodynamic_potentials" class="mw-redirect" title="Thermodynamic potentials">thermodynamic potentials</a> with respect to different thermodynamic variables. In 1874, he constructed a <a href="/wiki/Maxwell%27s_thermodynamic_surface" title="Maxwell's thermodynamic surface">plaster thermodynamic visualisation</a> as a way of exploring phase transitions, based on the American scientist <a href="/wiki/Josiah_Willard_Gibbs" title="Josiah Willard Gibbs">Josiah Willard Gibbs</a>'s graphical <a href="/wiki/Thermodynamics" title="Thermodynamics">thermodynamics</a> papers.<sup id="cite_ref-138" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-138"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>138<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-139" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-139"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Peter_Guthrie_Tait" title="Peter Guthrie Tait">Peter Guthrie Tait</a> called Maxwell the "leading molecular scientist" of his time.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another person added after Maxwell's death that "only one man lived who could understand Gibbs's papers. That was Maxwell, and now he is dead."<sup id="cite_ref-140" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-140"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>140<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Control_theory">Control theory</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Control_theory" title="Control theory">Control theory</a></div> <p>Maxwell published the paper "On governors" in the <i>Proceedings of the Royal Society</i>, vol. 16 (1867–1868).<sup id="cite_ref-Maxwell1867_141-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Maxwell1867-141"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>141<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This paper is considered a central paper of the early days of <a href="/wiki/Control_theory" title="Control theory">control theory</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-142" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-142"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>142<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Here "governors" refers to the <a href="/wiki/Governor_(device)" title="Governor (device)">governor</a> or the <a href="/wiki/Centrifugal_governor" title="Centrifugal governor">centrifugal governor</a> used to regulate <a href="/wiki/Steam_engine" title="Steam engine">steam engines</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:James_Clerk_Maxwell_statue_in_George_Street,_Edinburgh.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/James_Clerk_Maxwell_statue_in_George_Street%2C_Edinburgh.jpg/170px-James_Clerk_Maxwell_statue_in_George_Street%2C_Edinburgh.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/James_Clerk_Maxwell_statue_in_George_Street%2C_Edinburgh.jpg/255px-James_Clerk_Maxwell_statue_in_George_Street%2C_Edinburgh.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/James_Clerk_Maxwell_statue_in_George_Street%2C_Edinburgh.jpg/340px-James_Clerk_Maxwell_statue_in_George_Street%2C_Edinburgh.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1920" data-file-height="2560" /></a><figcaption>The James Clerk Maxwell Monument in Edinburgh, by <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Stoddart" title="Alexander Stoddart">Alexander Stoddart</a>. Commissioned by The Royal Society of Edinburgh; unveiled in 2008.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honours">Honours</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_James_Clerk_Maxwell" title="List of things named after James Clerk Maxwell">List of things named after James Clerk Maxwell</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publications">Publications</h2></div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px 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a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFMaxwell1873" class="citation cs2">Maxwell, James Clerk (1873), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/electricandmagne01maxwrich"><i>A treatise on electricity and magnetism Vol I</i></a>, Oxford : Clarendon Press</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+treatise+on+electricity+and+magnetism+Vol+I&rft.pub=Oxford+%3A+Clarendon+Press&rft.date=1873&rft.aulast=Maxwell&rft.aufirst=James+Clerk&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Felectricandmagne01maxwrich&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJames+Clerk+Maxwell" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMaxwell1873" class="citation cs2">Maxwell, James Clerk (1873), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/electricandmag02maxwrich"><i>A treatise on electricity and magnetism Vol II</i></a>, Oxford : Clarendon Press</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+treatise+on+electricity+and+magnetism+Vol+II&rft.pub=Oxford+%3A+Clarendon+Press&rft.date=1873&rft.aulast=Maxwell&rft.aufirst=James+Clerk&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Felectricandmag02maxwrich&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJames+Clerk+Maxwell" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMaxwell1876" class="citation cs2">Maxwell, James Clerk (1876), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=3jMKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR1"><i>Matter and Motion</i></a>, London and New York: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and Pott, Young & Co.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Matter+and+Motion&rft.place=London+and+New+York&rft.pub=Society+for+Promoting+Christian+Knowledge+and+Pott%2C+Young+%26+Co.&rft.date=1876&rft.aulast=Maxwell&rft.aufirst=James+Clerk&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D3jMKAAAAIAAJ%26pg%3DPR1&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJames+Clerk+Maxwell" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMaxwell1881" class="citation cs2">Maxwell, James Clerk (1881), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/elementarytreati00maxwrich"><i>An Elementary treatise on electricity</i></a>, Oxford : Clarendon Press</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=An+Elementary+treatise+on+electricity&rft.pub=Oxford+%3A+Clarendon+Press&rft.date=1881&rft.aulast=Maxwell&rft.aufirst=James+Clerk&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Felementarytreati00maxwrich&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJames+Clerk+Maxwell" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMaxwell1890" class="citation cs2">Maxwell, James Clerk (1890), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/scientificpapers01maxw"><i>The scientific papers of James Clerk Maxwell Vol I</i></a>, Dover Publication</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+scientific+papers+of+James+Clerk+Maxwell+Vol+I&rft.pub=Dover+Publication&rft.date=1890&rft.aulast=Maxwell&rft.aufirst=James+Clerk&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fscientificpapers01maxw&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJames+Clerk+Maxwell" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMaxwell1890" class="citation cs2">Maxwell, James Clerk (1890), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/scientificpapers02maxwuoft"><i>The scientific papers of James Clerk Maxwell Vol II</i></a>, Cambridge, University Press</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+scientific+papers+of+James+Clerk+Maxwell+Vol+II&rft.pub=Cambridge%2C+University+Press&rft.date=1890&rft.aulast=Maxwell&rft.aufirst=James+Clerk&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fscientificpapers02maxwuoft&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJames+Clerk+Maxwell" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMaxwell1908" class="citation cs2">Maxwell, James Clerk (1908), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/theoryofheat00maxwrich"><i>Theory of heat</i></a>, Longmans Green Co.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Theory+of+heat&rft.pub=Longmans+Green+Co.&rft.date=1908&rft.aulast=Maxwell&rft.aufirst=James+Clerk&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Ftheoryofheat00maxwrich&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJames+Clerk+Maxwell" class="Z3988"></span><sup id="cite_ref-143" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-143"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Three of Maxwell's contributions to <i>Encyclopædia Britannica</i> appeared in the Ninth Edition (1878): <i>Atom</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-144" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-144"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>144<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Attraction</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-145" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-145"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i>Ether</i>;<sup id="cite_ref-146" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-146"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>146<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and three in the Eleventh Edition (1911): <i>Capillary Action</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-147" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-147"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>147<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Diagram</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-148" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-148"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>148<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i>Faraday, Michael</i><sup id="cite_ref-149" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-149"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output 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His statement that "light and magnetism are affections of the same substance" is at page 499.)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSarkarSalazar-PalmaSengupta2010" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Tapan_Sarkar" title="Tapan Sarkar">Sarkar, Tapan K.</a>; Salazar-Palma, Magdalena; Sengupta, Dipak L. 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title="Ampere">ampere</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lord_Kelvin" title="Lord Kelvin">Lord Kelvin</a> (<a href="/wiki/Kelvin" title="Kelvin">kelvin</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">SI derived units</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henri_Becquerel" title="Henri Becquerel">Henri Becquerel</a> (<a href="/wiki/Becquerel" title="Becquerel">becquerel</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anders_Celsius" title="Anders Celsius">Anders Celsius</a> (degree <a href="/wiki/Celsius" title="Celsius">Celsius</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles-Augustin_de_Coulomb" title="Charles-Augustin de Coulomb">Charles-Augustin de Coulomb</a> (<a href="/wiki/Coulomb" title="Coulomb">coulomb</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Faraday" title="Michael Faraday">Michael Faraday</a> (<a href="/wiki/Farad" title="Farad">farad</a>)</li> <li><a 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title="Werner von Siemens">Werner von Siemens</a> (<a href="/wiki/Siemens_(unit)" title="Siemens (unit)">siemens</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rolf_Maximilian_Sievert" title="Rolf Maximilian Sievert">Rolf Maximilian Sievert</a> (<a href="/wiki/Sievert" title="Sievert">sievert</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikola_Tesla" title="Nikola Tesla">Nikola Tesla</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tesla_(unit)" title="Tesla (unit)">tesla</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alessandro_Volta" title="Alessandro Volta">Alessandro Volta</a> (<a href="/wiki/Volt" title="Volt">volt</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Watt" title="James Watt">James Watt</a> (<a href="/wiki/Watt" title="Watt">watt</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Eduard_Weber" title="Wilhelm Eduard Weber">Wilhelm Eduard Weber</a> (<a href="/wiki/Weber_(unit)" title="Weber (unit)">weber</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Non-SI metric (<a href="/wiki/Centimetre%E2%80%93gram%E2%80%93second_system_of_units" title="Centimetre–gram–second system of units">cgs</a>) units</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anders_Jonas_%C3%85ngstr%C3%B6m" title="Anders Jonas Ångström">Anders Jonas Ångström</a> (<a href="/wiki/Angstrom" title="Angstrom">angstrom</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Debye" title="Peter Debye">Peter Debye</a> (<a href="/wiki/Debye" title="Debye">debye</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lor%C3%A1nd_E%C3%B6tv%C3%B6s" title="Loránd Eötvös">Loránd Eötvös</a> (<a href="/wiki/Eotvos_(unit)" title="Eotvos (unit)">eotvos</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galileo_Galilei" title="Galileo Galilei">Galileo Galilei</a> (<a href="/wiki/Gal_(unit)" title="Gal (unit)">gal</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss" title="Carl Friedrich Gauss">Carl Friedrich Gauss</a> (<a href="/wiki/Gauss_(unit)" title="Gauss (unit)">gauss</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Gilbert_(physicist)" title="William Gilbert (physicist)">William Gilbert</a> (<a href="/wiki/Gilbert_(unit)" title="Gilbert (unit)">gilbert</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Kayser" title="Heinrich Kayser">Heinrich Kayser</a> (<a href="/wiki/Kayser_(unit)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kayser (unit)">kayser</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johann_Heinrich_Lambert" title="Johann Heinrich Lambert">Johann Heinrich Lambert</a> (<a href="/wiki/Lambert_(unit)" title="Lambert (unit)">lambert</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Langley" title="Samuel Langley">Samuel Langley</a> (<a href="/wiki/Langley_(unit)" title="Langley (unit)">langley</a>)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">James Clerk Maxwell</a> (<a href="/wiki/Maxwell_(unit)" title="Maxwell (unit)">maxwell</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hans_Christian_%C3%98rsted" title="Hans Christian Ørsted">Hans Christian Ørsted</a> (<a href="/wiki/Oersted" title="Oersted">oersted</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_L%C3%A9onard_Marie_Poiseuille" title="Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille">Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille</a> (<a href="/wiki/Poise_(unit)" title="Poise (unit)">poise</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_George_Stokes,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet">Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet</a> (<a href="/wiki/Stokes_(unit)" class="mw-redirect" title="Stokes (unit)">stokes</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_William_Strutt,_3rd_Baron_Rayleigh" title="John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh">John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh</a> (<a href="/wiki/Rayl" title="Rayl">rayl</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Imperial_units" title="Imperial units">Imperial</a> and <a href="/wiki/United_States_customary_units" title="United States customary units">US<br /> customary</a> units</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Gabriel_Fahrenheit" title="Daniel Gabriel 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J. Thomson">J. J. Thomson</a> (<a href="/wiki/Thomson_(unit)" title="Thomson (unit)">thomson</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evangelista_Torricelli" title="Evangelista Torricelli">Evangelista Torricelli</a> (<a href="/wiki/Torr" title="Torr">torr</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><a href="/wiki/List_of_scientists_whose_names_are_used_as_units" title="List of scientists whose names are used as units">List of scientists whose names are used as units</a> · <a href="/wiki/List_of_scientists_whose_names_are_used_in_physical_constants" title="List of scientists whose names are used in physical constants">Scientists whose names are used in physical constants</a> · <a href="/wiki/List_of_chemical_elements_named_after_people" title="List of chemical elements named after people">People whose names are used in chemical element names</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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