Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell may not be very well known, but lots of the technology we use today depends on his ideas. Maxwell invented colour photography (1861). He took photos using ...

James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) was the Einstein and the Newton of 19th century science. Maxwell's name is well known by every modern physicist and physics student. Maxwell's equations provide the ...

Summary: Maxwell's essay contains the essential ideas of modern chaos theory such as "sensitive dependence to initial conditions". He goes on to argue that this favors a world-view which includes free ...

This hypothetical being, invoked by James Clerk Maxwell nearly a century ago as a violator of the second law of thermodynamics, has occupied the minds of many prominent physicists ever since ...