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James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell was a Scottish physicist whose equations, published in the 1860s, unified electricity, magnetism and light in a single theory of the electromagnetic field. He also made fundamental contributions to the kinetic theory of gases and to colour photography, and became the first Cavendish Professor of Physics at Cambridge in 1871.
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