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.
Reposted from New-Cleckit Dominie
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...)

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