JAMES CLERK MAXWELL

JAMES CLERK MAXWELL(1831-1879):

He was an Mathematician and Physicist.

He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 13 June 1831. His father's name was John Clerk Maxwell of Middlebie and mother's name was Frances cay. His father was a lawyer. He was born when his mother was 40 years old. In December 1839.His mother, unfortunately, died of abdominal cancer when he was eight years old. His formal schooling began unsuccessfully under the guidance of a 16 years old hired tutor. The tutor was dismissed in November 1841. Maxwell was sent to the prestigious Edinburgh Academy. He wrote his first scientific paper when he was 14. In 1847,he began attending classes at the University of Edinburgh.

In 1850, he went to attend the University of Cambridge and graduated with a degree in mathematics in 1854. In 1855, He was made a fellow of the Trinity. In 1856, he accepted a position as professor of physics at Marischel collage, Aberdeen. He was just 25 years old at that time! A few years later he became the professor of natural philosophy at King's Collage London. During the late 1850s and 1860s, he made many noteworthy discoveries in the the electric and magnetic field.

His paper on physics lines of Force was publishedin 1861.In 1865,he resigned King's Collage. In 1870,he published the paper On Reciprocal figures frames and diagrams of forces and the textbook Theory of Heat in 1871. In 1871, he became the professor of Exprimental Physics at Cambridge and directed the newly created Canvendish Laboratory. In 1871, he established Maxwell's thermodynamic relations.

In 1874, he constructed a plaster thermodynamic visualization which was a way of  exploring transition based on Josiah Willard Gibb's thermodynamic papers. He edited the research of Henry Cavendish and 

also provided some invaluable original notes on it.

Maxwell gave the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, Which unified electricity, magnetism and light as manifestations of the same phenomenon. His equations for electromagnetism are considered the SECOND GREART UNIFICATION IN PHYSICS after the first one realized by isaac Newton.

The development of the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution is one of his biggest contributions tp physics.

He married Katherine Mary Dewar on 2 June,1858. The couple had no children and was very devoted towards each other.

In 1859,he was awarded Adams Prize of 130 for his essay ON THE STABILITY OF THE MOTION SATURN'S RINGS . He was bestowed with the Royal Society's  Rumford Medal in 1860,

for his work of color.

He died on 5 November,1879, at the age of 48. 

He died of abdominal cancer.