Top 10 Scientists Of All Time – Page 7

7) James Clerk Maxwell (1831 to 1879 AD) (7 of 10)

James Clerk Maxwell was a Scottish Mathematical physicist, who introduced the concepts of electromagnetic field with a set of equations. He proved that electromagnetic field and light both travel at the same speed. He also managed to take the first color photograph in 1961, after studying in the field of optics and color vision.

Maxwell also worked on the kinetic and thermodynamics theory and managed to create the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution from that. He is considered to be one of the prominent physicists of all time and also one of the greatest scientists that ever lived.

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