James Clerk Maxwell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

James Clerk Maxwell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "James Clerk Maxwell (June 13, 1831�November 5, 1879) was a Scottish 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."