Old photograph of Glenlair House, in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. James Clerk Maxwell, born 13th of June 1831, died 5th of November 1879, lived in Glenlair House. He was a Scottish mathematical physicist. His most prominent achievement was to formulate a set of equations that describe electricity, magnetism, and optics as manifestations of the same phenomenon, namely the electromagnetic field. Maxwell's achievements concerning electromagnetism have been called the " second great unification in physics ", after the first one realised by Isaac Newton.
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