Michael Faraday
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Michael Faraday was an English chemist and physicist who contributed vastly to the study of electrochemistry and electromagnetism. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagneti
Faraday, c. 1850s
Three Fellows of the Royal Society offering the presidency to Faraday (right) in 1857
Faraday House in Hampton Court where Faraday lived between 1858 and 1867
Faraday's grave at Highgate Cemetery, north London
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