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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Oliver Heaviside
Born: May 18, 1850
Died: February 3, 1925 (aged 74)
Bio: Oliver Heaviside was a self-taught English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits and reformulated Maxwell's field equations in terms of electric and magnetic forces and energy flux. Heaviside changed the face of telecommunications, mathematics, and science for years to come.
Known for:
- Electromagnetic theory (1893)
- Electrical papers (1892)
- Electromagnetic Waves (1889)
- Electrical Papers