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James Clerk Maxwell

The Scottish physicist who unified electricity, magnetism and light: four equations that predicted electromagnetic waves traveling at light speed, plus the first color photograph, the kinetic theory of gases, and the path to radio, relativity and modern tech.

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Prereqs: Michael Faraday. Next: Boltzmann; Einstein. Sources: Maxwell, 'A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field' (1865); Basil Mahon, *The Man Who Changed Everything* (2003); Feynman *Lectures* Vol. II.
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