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单词 Maxwell, James Clerk (1831–79)
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Maxwell, James Clerk (1831–79)

Physics
  • born in Edinburgh, who held academic posts at Aberdeen, London, and Cambridge. In the 1860s he was one of the founders of the kinetic theory of gases, but his best-known work was a mathematical analysis of electricity, magnetism, and electromagnetic radiation, published in 1865.


Mathematics
  • Of considerable importance in applied mathematics are the differential equations known as Maxwell’s equations, which are fundamental to the field theory of electromagnetism. He was also one of the first to be interested in the classification of knots.


Astronomy
  • In the late 1850s he explained that Saturn’s rings must consist of many small objects following independent concentric orbits, and that a solid or fluid ring would be unstable. Of his many contributions to theoretical physics, the most important is perhaps the concept of electromagnetic radiation. In 1865 he published what are now called Maxwell’s equations, which unify the phenomena of electricity and magnetism into a single theory.


Chemistry
  • born in Edinburgh, who held academic posts at Aberdeen, London, and Cambridge. In the 1860s he was one of the founders of the kinetic theory of gases, but his best-known work was a mathematical analysis of electromagnetism, published in 1865.


Chemical Engineering
  • A Scottish physicist and mathematician noted for his pioneering work on the kinetic theory of gases and electromagnetism. He was known affectionately at school as ‘daftie’ and at fifteen he had a mathematical paper read to the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He retired in 1865 as professor at Aberdeen and London, but in 1871 he was recalled to be the first professor of experimental physics at Cambridge where he also prepared plans for the Cavendish Laboratory that was named after the Hon. Henry Cavendish (1731–1810). He also made major contributions to astronomy, colour, and colour-blindness.


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