Difference between revisions of "James Clerk Maxwell"
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<p> [[Eminent]] physicist, born in Edinburgh, son of | <p> [[Eminent]] physicist, born in Edinburgh, son of John [[Clerk]] Maxwell of Middlebie; attained the rank of senior wrangler at Cambridge; became professor in [[Aberdeen]] in 1856, in London in 1860, and of Experimental Physics in [[Cambridge]] in 1871; in this year appeared the first of his works, "The Theory of Heat," which was followed by "Electricity and Magnetism" and "Matter and Motion," the second being his greatest; he was as sincere a [[Christian]] as he was a zealous scientist (1831-1879). </p> | ||
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia [1]
Eminent physicist, born in Edinburgh, son of John Clerk Maxwell of Middlebie; attained the rank of senior wrangler at Cambridge; became professor in Aberdeen in 1856, in London in 1860, and of Experimental Physics in Cambridge in 1871; in this year appeared the first of his works, "The Theory of Heat," which was followed by "Electricity and Magnetism" and "Matter and Motion," the second being his greatest; he was as sincere a Christian as he was a zealous scientist (1831-1879).
