Katherine Clerk Maxwell
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Katherine Mary Clerk Maxwell was the wife of Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell. In the 1850s and 1860s she aided him in some of his work on colour vision and his experiments on the viscosity of g
An image showing Katherine Clerk Maxwell (seated), with her husband James Clerk Maxwell and the couple's dog.
An image of Katherine Clerk Maxwell's grave in Parton, Dumfries and Galloway, where she is buried with her husband James Clerk Maxwell and his parents.
Peter Guthrie Tait
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Peter Guthrie Tait was a Scottish mathematical physicist and early pioneer in thermodynamics. He is best known for the mathematical physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote w
Katherine Clerk Maxwell
…prolonged illness in 1876, which her husband nursed her through. Despite this, and Katherine's role in caring for her husband, Margaret Tait (wife of P. G. Tait) is said to have accused Katherine of derailing her husband's career because of her illness and James Clerk Maxwell's care for her. Katherine was widowed…
Photograph of Tait in 1870, with signature
Tait, photographed in the 1860s
A postcard to Tait from James Clerk Maxwell
Tait's memorial plaque and grave marker at St Johns Episcopal Church, Edinburgh