Maxwell's Rainbow
A new 3D school show exploring Maxwell's work on the unification of electricity, magnetism and light. Suitable for S3 and above.
Commissioned by
the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation
and supported by the Heritage Lottery
Fund.

James Clerk Maxwell was one of the greatest scientists who have ever
lived. To him we owe the most significant discovery of our age - the
theory of electromagnetism. He is rightly acclaimed as the father of
modern physics, but also made fundamental contributions to mathematics,
astronomy and engineering. Although not as widely known by the public as
Newton or Einstein, his discoveries have helped shape the modern world.
A Short Biography
JAMES CLERK MAXWELL -
1831-1879 :
On the 13th June 1831 James Clerk Maxwell was born in Edinburgh, at
14 India Street, a house built for his father in that part of Edinburgh's
elegant Georgian New Town which was developed after the Napoleonic
Wars.
Although the family moved to their estate at Glenlair, near Dumfries,
shortly afterwards, James returned to Edinburgh to attend school at
The Edinburgh Academy. He continued his education at the Universities
of
Edinburgh and Cambridge. In 1856, at the early age of 25, he became
Professor of Physics at Marischal College, Aberdeen. From there he
moved first
to King's College, London, and then, in 1871, to become the first Professor
of Experimental Physics at Cambridge where he directed the newly created
Cavendish Laboratory. It was at the Cavendish, over the next fifty
years, that so much of the physics of today continued to develop
from Maxwell's
inspiration. Find out more...
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IMAGE CREDITS: Magnetic Field apparatus: MIT TEAL/Studio Physics Project |
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