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  • Thumbnail for James Clerk Maxwell
    James Clerk Maxwell FRS FRSE (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish physicist and mathematician who was responsible for the classical theory...
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    mathematician James Clerk Maxwell, who, in 1861 and 1862, published an early form of the equations that included the Lorentz force law. Maxwell first used...
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  • Thumbnail for James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
    The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) is a submillimetre-wavelength radio telescope at Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii, US. The telescope is near the...
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  • Thumbnail for Katherine Clerk Maxwell
    Katherine Mary Clerk Maxwell (née Dewar; 1824 – 12 December 1886) was the wife of Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell. She aided him in some of his...
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  • Thumbnail for James Clerk Maxwell Foundation
    3°12′21″W / 55.9552115°N 3.2057056°W / 55.9552115; -3.2057056 The James Clerk Maxwell Foundation is a registered Scottish charity set up in 1977. By supporting...
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  • Thumbnail for 19th century in science
    theories and discoveries of Michael Faraday, Andre-Marie Ampere, James Clerk Maxwell, and their contemporaries led to the creation of electromagnetism...
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  • With initial funding from Wolfson, an award called the IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal was established in 2006 by the IEEE and Royal Society of Edinburgh...
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  • Thumbnail for Maxwell (microarchitecture)
    The architecture is named after James Clerk Maxwell, the founder of the theory of electromagnetic radiation. The Maxwell architecture is used in the system...
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  • Thumbnail for Maxwell's demon
    Maxwell's demon is a thought experiment that appears to disprove the second law of thermodynamics. It was proposed by the physicist James Clerk Maxwell...
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  • Cavendish. The first Cavendish Professor was the then relatively obscure James Clerk Maxwell, who had yet to complete the work that would make him the most renowned...
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  • Clerk-Maxwell, a double-barrelled name, may refer to: George Clerk-Maxwell, 4th Baronet of Penicuik James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879), physicist and mathematician...
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  • Thumbnail for Maxwell coil
    magnetic field. It is named in honour of the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell. A Maxwell coil is an improvement of a Helmholtz coil: in operation it...
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  • Thumbnail for Maxwell relations
    relations are named for the nineteenth-century physicist James Clerk Maxwell. The structure of Maxwell relations is a statement of equality among the second...
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    OCLC 221563777. Maxwell, James Clerk (1990). "Letter to David Peck Todd". The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1874-1879. Cambridge...
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    2. Retrieved May 31, 2014. Maxwell, James Clerk (May 18, 1995). The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell. CUP Archive. ISBN 9780521256261...
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    http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/1_P/1_photographers_maxwell.htm - Photos and stories from the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation. Stanford University CS 178 interactive...
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    the German compound Wärmemenge, translated as "amount of heat". James Clerk Maxwell in his 1871 Theory of Heat outlines four stipulations for the definition...
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  • A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field (category Works by James Clerk Maxwell)
    Electromagnetic Field" is a paper by James Clerk Maxwell on electromagnetism, published in 1865. In the paper, Maxwell derives an electromagnetic wave equation...
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    A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (category Works by James Clerk Maxwell)
    is a two-volume treatise on electromagnetism written by James Clerk Maxwell in 1873. Maxwell was revising the Treatise for a second edition when he died...
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  • Thumbnail for Ampère's circuital law
    a closed loop to the electric current passing through the loop. James Clerk Maxwell derived it using hydrodynamics in his 1861 published paper "On Physical...
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