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James Clerk Maxwell
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Noun1.James Clerk Maxwell - Scottish physicist whose equations unified electricity and magnetism and who recognized the electromagnetic nature of light (1831-1879)James Clerk Maxwell - Scottish physicist whose equations unified electricity and magnetism and who recognized the electromagnetic nature of light (1831-1879)
J. C. Maxwell, Maxwell
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Aa This unification of electricity and magnetism into what, from the time on, has been known as electromagnetism came by with the help of one Sir James Clark Maxwell, whose theory had the ubiquitous result that a wave made of electromagnetic fields would travel at exactly the speed of light.
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