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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal is an award given by the IEEE and Royal Society of Edinburgh, UK. It is named after James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)...
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    - 2012), who devoted much of his life to promoting the memory of James Clerk Maxwell. Murray also built the village hall in 1908 with the motto over the...
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    Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus). They were first investigated by James Clerk Maxwell in 1846. Given n focal points (ui, vi) in a plane, an n-ellipse is...
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    mechanics), the Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution, or Maxwell(ian) distribution, is a particular probability distribution named after James Clerk Maxwell and Ludwig...
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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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    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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  • James Clerk Maxwell Garnett CBE (13 October 1880 – 19 March 1958), commonly known as Maxwell Garnett, was an English educationist, barrister, peace campaigner...
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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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  • A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field (category Works by James Clerk Maxwell)
    "A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field" is a paper by James Clerk Maxwell on electromagnetism, published in 1865. Physicist Freeman Dyson called...
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    The James Clerk Maxwell Medal and Prize is awarded by the Institute of Physics (IOP) in theoretical physics. The award is made "for exceptional early-career...
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  • The James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics is an annual American Physical Society (APS) award that is given in recognition of outstanding contributions...
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    Electromagnetic induction (category Maxwell's equations)
    generally credited with the discovery of induction in 1831, and James Clerk Maxwell mathematically described it as Faraday's law of induction. Lenz's...
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    additive color was proposed by Thomas Young and further developed by James Clerk Maxwell and Hermann von Helmholtz, triangles were also used to organize colors...
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    as far as trigonometry and were limited to the simplest algebra. James Clerk Maxwell took the work of Faraday and others and summarised it in a set of...
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    came over the following centuries. In a paper published in 1865, James Clerk Maxwell proposed that light was an electromagnetic wave and, therefore, travelled...
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