James Clerk Maxwell
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James Clerk Maxwell was a Scottish physicist and mathematician who was responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, which was the first theory to describe electricity, magnetism
Maxwell, c. 1870s
Clerk Maxwell's birthplace at 14 India Street in Edinburgh is now the home of the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation.
Old College, University of Edinburgh
A young Maxwell at Trinity College, Cambridge, holding one of his colour wheels
Maxwell's equations
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Maxwell's equations are a set of coupled partial differential equations that describe how electric and magnetic fields are generated by electric charges and currents. Together with the Lorentz force l
James Clerk Maxwell
…electromagnetic radiation, which was the first theory to describe electricity, magnetism and light as different manifestations of the same phenomenon. Maxwell's equations for electromagnetism achieved the second great unification in physics, where the first one had been realised by Isaac Newton. Maxwell was also key in…
Maxwell's equations on a plaque attached to his statue in Edinburgh
In a geomagnetic storm, solar wind plasma impacts Earth's magnetic field causing a time-dependent change in the field, thus inducing electric fields in Earth's atmosphere and conductive lithosphere which can destabilize power grids. (Not to scale.)
Magnetic-core memory (1954) is an application of Ampère's circuital law. Each core stores one bit of data.