James Clerk Maxwell

James Clerk Maxwell (June 13, 1831–November 5, 1879) was a Scottish mathematical physicist, born in Edinburgh. Maxwell developed a set of equations expressing the basic laws of electricity and magnetism as well as the Maxwell distribution in the kinetic theory of gases. He was the last representative of a younger branch of the well-known Scottish family of Clerk of Penicuik.

Publications

• Maxwell, James Clerk, "On the Description of Oval Curves, and those having a plurality of Foci". Procedure of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol. ii. 1846.
• Maxwell, James Clerk, "Illustrations of the Dynamical Theory of Gases". 1860.
• Maxwell, James Clerk, "On Physical Lines of Force". 1861.
• Maxwell, James Clerk, "A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field". 1865.
• Maxwell, James Clerk, "Theory of Heat". 1871.
• Maxwell, James Clerk, "A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism". Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1873.
• Maxwell, James Clerk, "Molecules". Nature, September, 1873.
• Maxwell, James Clerk, "On the Results of Bernoulli's Theory of Gases as Applied to their Internal Friction, their Diffusion, and their Conductivity for Heat".