John Henry Poynting
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John Henry Poynting FRS was an English physicist. He was the first professor of physics at Mason Science College from 1880 to 1900, and then the successor institution, the University of Birmingham unt
John Henry Poynting
University of Birmingham – Poynting Physics Building – blue plaque
Blue plaque to Poynting erected in Salford by the Institute of Physics
Electricity and magnetism, 1914
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
John Henry Poynting
…attained high honours in mathematics after taking grinds with Edward Routh. In the late 1870s, he worked in the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge under James Clerk Maxwell. In 1880, he became the first professor of physics at the University of Birmingham. He was the developer and eponym of the Poynting vector, which…
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