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It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject,...

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Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.

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James Clerk Maxwell

Physicist

Born: 1831-06-13

Died: 1879-11-05

James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish mathematical physicist, who formulated the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, bringing together for the first time electricity, magnetism, and light as manifestations of the same phenomenon.More