Definition of James Clerk Maxwell

1. Noun. Scottish physicist whose equations unified electricity and magnetism and who recognized the electromagnetic nature of light (1831-1879).

Exact synonyms: J. C. Maxwell, Maxwell
Generic synonyms: Physicist

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Literary usage of James Clerk Maxwell

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Popular Science Monthly (1880)
"SKETCH OF James Clerk Maxwell. AMONG the present generation of English physicists none have attained to greater eminence, or have made more valuable ..."

2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1867)
"... LECTURE was delivered by James Clerk Maxwell, MA, FRS," On the Viscosity or Internal Friction of Air and other Gases." The following is an abstract. ..."

3. The Library of Original Sources edited by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1915)
"James Clerk Maxwell James Clerk Maxwell was born in 1831. He attended Edinburgh from 1847 to ... James Clerk Maxwell."

4. Lectures on Ten British Physicists of the Nineteenth Century by Alexander Macfarlane (1919)
"TEN BRITISH PHYSICISTS James Clerk Maxwell* (1831-1879) James Clerk Maxwell ... The mother of James Clerk Maxwell belonged to an old family of the north of ..."

5. A First Course in Physics by Robert Andrews Millikan, Henry Gordon Gale (1913)
"JAMES CLERK-MAXWELL (1831-1879) One of the greatest of mathematical physicists ; born in Edinburgh, Scotland; professor of natural philosophy at Marischal ..."

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