John Clerk of Middlebie was a Scottish advocate and father of the mathematical physicist James Clerk Maxwell.
John Clerk Maxwell's house at 14 India Street
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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
John Clerk Maxwell of Middlebie
…John Clerk (later Clerk Maxwell) of Middlebie (1790–1856) was a Scottish advocate and father of the mathematical physicist James Clerk Maxwell. He was born in Edinburgh on 20 October 1790, the son of Janet Irving and Captain James Clerk. He studied law and qualified as an advocate in 1811…
Maxwell, c. 1870s
Old College, University of Edinburgh
A young Maxwell at Trinity College, Cambridge, holding one of his colour wheels