2)
JAMES CLERK MAXWELL (1831–1879)
James Clerk Maxwell
(1831 – 1879) Born in
Edinburgh, Scotland,
was among the greatest
physicists 
of 
the
nineteenth century He
derived the thermal
velocity distribution of
molecules in a gas and
was among the first to
obtain 
reliable
estimates of molecular
parameters 
from
measurable quantities
like 
viscosity, 
etc Maxwell’s 
greatest
acheivement was the
unification of the laws of
electricity 
and
magnetism (discovered
by Coulomb, Oersted,
Ampere and Faraday)
into a consistent set of
equations now called
Maxwell’s equations From these he arrived at
the most important
conclusion that light is
an 
wave