2009.1851 The new monument to the Mathematical Physicist James Clerk Maxwell 1831-79.
This is the new monument, unveiled on the 25th November 2008, to the Edinburgh-born physicist James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), hailed as the greatest mathematical physicist since Newton.
The James Clerk Maxwell Statue is by Scottish sculptor Alexander Stoddart, and is located at the east end of George Street, Edinburgh.
Maxwell was responsible for the second great unification in physics, that of electricity and magnetism, after the first unification, by Newton, of terrestrial and celestial mechanics. He also made important contributions to statistical mechanics (see Maxwell's demon).
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Maxwell was born at 14 India Street, at the other end of Edinburgh's New Town.
His experimentation with colour photography is less well known, but his photograph of a tartan ribbon is considered to have have been the first colour photograph.
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2009.1851 The new monument to the Mathematical Physicist James Clerk Maxwell 1831-79.
This is the new monument, unveiled on the 25th November 2008, to the Edinburgh-born physicist James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), hailed as the greatest mathematical physicist since Newton.
The James Clerk Maxwell Statue is by Scottish sculptor Alexander Stoddart, and is located at the east end of George Street, Edinburgh.
Maxwell was responsible for the second great unification in physics, that of electricity and magnetism, after the first unification, by Newton, of terrestrial and celestial mechanics. He also made important contributions to statistical mechanics (see Maxwell's demon).
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Maxwell was born at 14 India Street, at the other end of Edinburgh's New Town.
His experimentation with colour photography is less well known, but his photograph of a tartan ribbon is considered to have have been the first colour photograph.
This album also in the Collection: "The Physicists"
View this set as a slideshow