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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 13 June 1831
- Died
- 5 November 1879
- Place of birth
- Edinburgh
- Place of death
- Cambridge
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- James
- Family name
- Maxwell, Clerk Maxwell, Clerk, Clerk-Maxwell
- Mother
- Frances Cay
- Spouse
- Katherine Clerk Maxwell
- Field of work
- physics, mechanics, mathematics, electromagnetic field, electricity, magnetism, color photography, kinetic theory
- Occupation
- physicist, mathematician, inventor, photographer, university teacher, theoretical physicist, teacher, thermodynamicist, scientist
- Position held
- Cavendish Professor of Physics
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Native language
- English
- Religion
- Christian socialism
- Awards
- Fellow of the Royal Society, Rumford Medal, Royal Society Bakerian Medal, Keith Medal, Adams Prize, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame, Smith's Prize
- cause of death
- stomach cancer
- contributed to creative work
- Popular Science
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, BEIC Digital Library, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886, The American Cyclopædia, The New Student's Reference Work
- doctoral advisor
- William Hopkins
- doctoral student
- Horace Lamb, George Chrystal, John William Strutt
- educated at
- University of Edinburgh, Peterhouse, Edinburgh Academy, Trinity College, University of Cambridge
- influenced by
- Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- Royal Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
- name in native language
- James Clerk Maxwell
- notable work
- A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field, Maxwell's equations, Maxwell–Boltzmann statistics, Maxwell's demon
- place of burial
- Westminster Abbey, Parton Churchyard
- relative
- Jemima Blackburn
- start of work period
- 1860
- topic's main category
- Category:James Clerk Maxwell
- writing language
- English
Connected on Wikidata
Author of
- A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism
- An Elementary Treatise on Electricity
- A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism Volume II
- A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism Volume I
- Matter and Motion
- The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell
- Theory of Heat
- The scientific papers;
- An Elementary Treatise on Electricity
- An Elementary Treatise on Electricity
- La chaleur
- Theorie der Wärme
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