James Clerk Maxwell
By Ashley Schultz
Biography
1831- 1879
- Lived in the U.K.
- Worked as a professor most of his life
- Created the theory of magnetism & Maxwell's Laws
- Married Katherine Mary Dewar
Interesting Facts
- Did a huge amount of work & studying on the stability of Saturn's rings
- Contributed to color theory, kinetics, and thermodynamics
- Known as 'the father of modern physics'
Discoveries
- Michael Faraday came up with the idea, and JCM expanded on it
- Concluded that magnetism and electricity are connected
- Found that electromagnetic movement was in the form of waves that travel at the speed of light.
- Wrote Maxwell's Laws to calculate & explain everything
Maxwell's Theory
- Are comprised of 4 different laws
IMPACT
- Called the father of modern physics
- Science community finally had a solid theory that electricity and magnetism are connected