Top 10 Greatest Scientists Of All Time #6

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#6 – James Clerk Maxwell (1831 – 1879)

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James Clerk Maxwell (image source)

James Clerk Maxwell was a Scottish mathematical physicist. He is famous for describing magnetism, electricity and optics through as set of equations (Maxwell equations), which he showed to be the manifestation of the same electromagnetic field phenomenon.