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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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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19th century in science (section James Clerk Maxwell)
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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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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Ampère's circuital law (redirect from Ampère-Maxwell equation)
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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Heat (section James Clerk Maxwell (1871))
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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- 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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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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Color triangle (redirect from Maxwell's discs)
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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name James Clerk Maxwell, mathematician and physicist Justice Maxwell (disambiguation) Maxwell baronets, in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia Maxwell (footballer...
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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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