As @baldiepete.bsky.social says in the 🧵: “The most important person that most people have never heard of.”
James Clerk Maxwell unified electricity & magnetism.
It underpins most of our modern world.
He stands between Newton & Einstein in the pantheon of mathematical-physicists geniuses.
James Clerk Maxwell unified electricity & magnetism.
It underpins most of our modern world.
He stands between Newton & Einstein in the pantheon of mathematical-physicists geniuses.
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It's James Clerk Maxwell's birthday, so please appreciate this unusually wholesome image of a natural scientist at work. He's the one at the back.
(Jemima Wedderburn, 1843; www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...)
(Jemima Wedderburn, 1843; www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...)
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Where I was lectured in mathematical-physics by a certain Professor Higgs.
I got a merit award for that module… what a geek.)
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https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Maxwell_House/GSTMax/
Though that flat did get me into property as my parents selling it allowed me to make the contact for my first job via the agent.
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