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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
James Clerk Maxwell
Born: June 13, 1831
Died: November 5, 1879 (aged 48)
Bio: James Clerk Maxwell was a Scottish scientist in the field of mathematical physics.
Known for:
- A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism
- Matter and motion (1876)
- An Elementary Treatise on Electricity
- Five of Maxwell's Papers
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