James Clerk Maxwell

James Clerk Maxwell grew up on Glenlair south of Glasgow. He began his university studies in Edinburgh in 1847 and was promoted to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1854. He took up a professorship in natural philosophy in Aberdeen in 1856 and then moved to King's College in London in 1860, then took a professorship in physics and astronomy.

In 1865 he retired to Glenlair, where he wrote his work on electricity and magnetism, A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, one of the great texts of physics, published in 1873. Maxwell returned to Cambridge in 1871 as professor of experimental physics and also as responsible for the construction of the famous Cavendish Laboratory.

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