James Clerk Maxwell and Katherine Mary 1869, a decade before he died. The dog is essential (and knows it).

Who is James Clerk Maxwell?

Pretty Much The Father of Most of Humanity’s Physical Progress in the last 150 years and of our Practical Understanding of Reality

Robert Thibadeau
LieCatcher
Published in
4 min readNov 22, 2022

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Some of what came out of James Clerk Maxwell’s Brain, in no particular order:

  • Electricity and Magnetism became a Field with Waves filled by a Medium of Electromagnetism
  • Light became just some of the Electromagnetic Waves in the Medium
  • How some Electromagnetic Waves also became Invisible Radio Waves
  • How Electric Fields and Waves Could be Directed Magnetically
  • How Magnetic Fields and Waves Could be Directed Electrically
  • Light Polarization Explained Perfectly
  • Magnets Explained Perfectly
  • Electric Motors Explained Perfectly
  • Electrical Transmission by Wires Explained Perfectly
  • Father of Modern Astronomy using the Revealing Properties of Light
  • Trichromatic Theory of How We See Colors
  • First Color Photograph Conceived and Developed
  • True Kind Christian who Objected to Dynastic Religions
  • Great Teacher, Book “Matter and Motion”

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Robert Thibadeau
LieCatcher

Carnegie Mellon University since 1979 — Cognitive Science, AI, Machine Learning, one of the founding Directors of the Robotics Institute. rht@brightplaza.com