James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)

Biographical Materials

• James Clerk Maxwell: Maker of Waves
• James Clerk Maxwell: A Biography with Reference to His Time at King's College, London
• A Maxwell Chronology
• Maxwell's Degrees and Awards
• J. C. Maxwell's Heritage: the Ancestral Origins of his Genius
• Maxwell the Pawky Humorist

Maxwell's Contributions to Science

• James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), Mathematical Physicist
• On Maxwell and Maxwellian views of charge and current
• Maxwell Distribution for the velocity of molecules (1859)
• Maxwell's Demon
• Maxwell's Equations of Electromagnetism (1864)
• Maxwell's Equation of Thermodynamics
• Dynamical Theory of Gases
• Color Vision
• "Molecules" (1873) — full text

Resources

• A James Clerk Maxwell Bibliography: Primary and secondary Sources
• Clerk Maxwell Foundation site (UK; contains downloadable papers and essays)
• Maxwell Year 2006 — the 175th anniversary of the birth of Scotland's greatest scientist (UK)

Victorian Science

• The Wave Theory of Light
• Physics in the Nineteenth Century
• Conservation of Energy and Thermodynamics
• Nineteenth-Century Physics: Suggested Further Readings
  

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Last modified 25 March 2006