Scottish physicist who formulated the Maxwell equations — unifying electricity, magnetism, and light as a single electromagnetic field — the greatest theoretical achievement in physics between Newton and Einstein.
Unified electricity, magnetism, and light in four equations — predicting that light is an electromagnetic wave, predicting the existence of radio waves, and creating the mathematical framework that Einstein called the most profound in physics — single-handedly creating the theoretical foundation for modern communications technology.
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