But who was Einstein a fan of? James Clerk Maxwell. Who? Oh, he's only the scientist responsible for explaining the forces behind the radio in your car, the magnets on your fridge, the heat of a ...

Born 175 years ago, James Clerk Maxwell carried out the first profound unification of nature’s forces. Francis Everitt examines the immense contributions of the greatest mathematical physicist since ...

JAMES CLERK MAXWELL, whose premature death, on Wednesday last week, science has to deplore, was born in 1831, being the only son of John Clerk Maxwell, Esq., of Middlebie, His grandfather was ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Maxwell invented colour photography (1861). He took photos using red, green and blue filters and then put the images ...

James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) was the Einstein and the Newton of 19th century science. Maxwell's name is well known by every modern physicist and physics student. Maxwell's equations provide the ...

In 1867, physicist James Clerk Maxwell was pondering possible exceptions to the second law of thermodynamics, which says things must always flow from hot to cold unless there is some energy source ...

In 1873, James Clerk Maxwell's "A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism" touched on something very significant. "Conjectures of various kinds had been made as to the relation between magnetism and ...