More by James R. Newman This article was originally published with the title “ James Clerk Maxwell ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 192 No. 6 ( June 1955 ) , p. 58 doi: 10.1038 ...

Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell may not be very well known, but lots of the technology we use today depends on his ideas. Maxwell invented colour photography (1861). He took photos using ...

Hunt and James A. Yorke, "Maxwell on Chaos", in Nonlinear Science Today 3 , 1 (1993), first alerted me to Maxwell's views on these issues.] Below are excerpts from his essay recorded on p.362-366 of ...

In the nave of Westminster Abbey is a memorial stone for James Clerk Maxwell, eminent physicist and mathematician ... He is considered to be second only to Newton among the mathematical scientists ...