James Clerk Maxwell was a Scottish physicist who lived between 1831-1879. He studied Saturn's rings and first suggested that they were made of actual material. Maxwell is most famous for his work with electricity and magnetism. |
James Clerk Maxwell was a Scottish physicist who lived between 1831-1879. He studied Saturn's rings and suggested that they were composed of solid particles. This theory was confirmed 100 years later by the Voyager 1 space probe. Maxwell is most famous for his equations linking electricity and magnetism. His revolutionary work lead to the development of quantum physics in the early 1900's and to Einstein's theory of relativity. |
James Clerk Maxwell was a Scottish physicist who lived between 1831-1879. He studied Saturn's rings and suggested that they were composed of solid particles. This theory was confirmed 100 years later by the Voyager 1 space probe. Maxwell is most famous for his equations linking electricity and magnetism, and his belief that electromagnetism moved through space in waves. His revolutionary work lead to the development of quantum physics in the early 1900's and to Einstein's theory of relativity. Maxwell also described the properties of gas molecules using statistics. His improvements to the kinetic theory of gases included showing that temperature and heat are caused only by molecular movement. |
