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James Clerk-Maxwell—100 years later

Nature volume 282, pages 235–239 (1979)Cite this article

This year is the centenary of the death of James Clerk-Maxwell, whose theory of the electromagnetic field provided the background essential to the development of Einstein's ideas. Einstein, at the commemoration of the centenary of Maxwell's birth in 1931, described the change in conception of reality in physics after Maxwell as “the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton”.

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Domb, C. James Clerk-Maxwell—100 years later. Nature 282, 235–239 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/282235a0

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