James Clerk Maxwell
1831 – 1879 · United Kingdom · Physics, Mathematics
Four equations that unified electricity, magnetism and light — hence radio and Wi-Fi.
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Who shaped James Clerk Maxwell, and who they shaped
Inherited from1
- Michael Faraday
1791 – 1867 · Physics, Chemistry
Maxwell put Faraday's lines of force into equations.
Passed the work to3
- Albert Einstein
1879 – 1955 · Physics
Special relativity is written to keep Maxwell's constant light speed for every observer.
- Guglielmo Marconi
1874 – 1937 · Engineering, Physics
Marconi's transatlantic signal is the commercial demonstration of Maxwell's predicted waves.
- Max Planck
1858 – 1947 · Physics
Blackbody radiation is the classical electromagnetic problem whose failure forced the quantum.
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