James Clerk Maxwell is considered the most influential scientist of the 19th Century. He is ranked third after Newton and Einstein for his work on Electromagnetism and on the Molecular Theory of Gases. A man of many talents, paradoxically, Maxwell is not well known outside the physics community. This is partly because he died young (age 48) soon after publishing his seminal papers.
I shall be talking about James Maxwell in my talks on Great Scottish Inventors for Strathclyde Centre for LifeLong Learning and for my Science for All programme in East Kilbride. The talks will take place in July/August 2014.
Maxwell came from a family of high achievers - both from his father and mother side. Two family trees are given for that reason
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