James Clark Maxwell 1831 - 1879 James Clerk Maxwell (James Clerk Maxwell) was a Scottish physicist and exerted great influence on modern physics of the nineteenth century. He created the electromagnetic theory of light. Maxwell was born on July 13, 1831 in Edinburgh. His parents were married later and his mother, Frances Kay, was forty years old when he was born. His father, Xhohn Clark Maxwell, was a lawyer. The family was rich. About 800 hectares of arable land, remained to Maxwell.The first ten years of his life he passed in the Glenler house . Until the death of his mother's with the education was taken completely she . She learned to read, spurred (with her father) the curiosity about everything, and pride wonderful memory. Maxwell was eight years old when she died of cancer. The boy suffers a severe stroke.At the age of ten he was brought to the Edinburgh Academy. At age 14, Maxwell published the first scientific article on the geometry of ovales. Later stands three years at Edinburgh University and three years at Cambridge. Wins a scholarship to Trinity College. In the first part of Maxwell's article "On Faraday's lines of intensity" (1855 -1856) includes a set of equations that describe the connections of electric fields and magnetic charges and currents that they created . At the center of this work was theorem that, according to Maxwell, we call today Stoks theorem. Leaves Cambridge to become professor at the Marishall College in Aberdeen. There he was married with the daughter of the correspondent of the college. They had no children but by his biographers was described as "a marriage ... . with unprecedented commitment".
He wrote poetry.
He formulated the laws of electromagnetic waves The intensity of the electric field = speed of light x induction of the magnetic field 77
All mental strength, all willpower Can remain in the dust after our death But love is ours, and will continue to be Even when land and seas will not be more. Xh.K. Maxwell By replacing on his equations some experimental results Kohlraushit G. and V. Veber , Maxwell finds that the propagation speed of electromagnetic waves was identical to the light. This theory was presented in two articles of the years 1865 and 1868 and in his great work "Treaty of electricity and magnetism", published in 1873. Maxwell did works in other areas of physics: the kinetic theory of gases, molecular physics, thermodynamics and in the nature of the rings of Saturn. Maxwell was far from being an incomprehensible theorist but he was a designers and skilled experimenter. Along with his wife produced one of the first color photographs. In 1861 becomes a member of the Royal Society and in 1871 settled in professor Kavendish in Cambridge . He prepares and follows the project of reconstruction of the Kavendish Laboratory . Maxwell spends his money to buy equipment for the laboratory. According to his biographers, Maxwell was an extremely sensitive man, with strong religious feelings and pleasant sense of humor . He had a talent for writing poetry. At the time that his wife was very ill stands for many days and nights with her. Dies in 1879 after a short illness.To Maxwell was not made any public esteem and was buried quietly in the Parton village in Scotland. In Britain, at least, he was the greatest mathematical and physicist since Newton.