Maxwell, James Clerk Maxwell, 1831-1879, Professor of Physics

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Maxwell, James Clerk Maxwell, 1831-1879, Professor of Physics

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1831-1879

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Born 1831; student, University of Edinburgh, 1847-1850; Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1850; Trinity College, Cambridge, 1850-1854; Fellow of Trinity, 1855; Professor of Natural Philosophy, Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1856-1860; Professor of Natural Philosophy, King's College London, 1860-1865; private studies, 1865-1871; Professor of Experimental Physics, University of Cambridge, 1871-1879; died, 1879.

Publications: On the stability of the motion of Saturn's rings (Cambridge, 1859); Introductory lecture on experimental physics (London and Cambridge, 1871); A treatise on electricity and magnetism , 2 vols (1873); edited The electrical researches of the Honourable Henry Cavendish (Cambridge, 1879)

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KCL-AF1227

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