An international collaboration led by Nagoya University in Japan sheds new light on the relationship between quantum theory ...

These findings provide further insights into the mysterious relationship between the quantum world and thermodynamics. While ...

James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) was the Einstein and the Newton of 19th century science. Maxwell's name is well known by every modern physicist and physics student. Maxwell's equations provide the ...

Maxwell is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant men ever. His contributions to physics, through studies of electromagnetism and his proposal that light is a wave, are still extremely ...

That’s understandable since the channel is a general interest channel. However, for this piece on James Clerk Maxwell, he brought in [Arvin Ash] to handle the science side. While [The History Gu ...

This hypothetical being, invoked by James Clerk Maxwell nearly a century ago as a violator of the second law of thermodynamics, has occupied the minds of many prominent physicists ever since ...

D. Niven, of Trinity College, Cambridge. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism. By James Clerk Maxwell. Second Edition. (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1881.) An Elementary Treatise on Electricity.

A 19th-century thought experiment, considered for decades to break the laws of thermodynamics, has been brought to life inside a quantum computer and used to charge a quantum battery. Physicist ...

More by James R. Newman This article was originally published with the title “ James Clerk Maxwell ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 192 No. 6 ( June 1955 ) , p. 58 doi: 10.1038 ...

Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell may not be very well known, but lots of the technology we use today depends on his ideas. Maxwell invented colour photography (1861). He took photos using ...

In the nave of Westminster Abbey is a memorial stone for James Clerk Maxwell, eminent physicist and mathematician. It is placed to the north of the grave of Sir Isaac Newton and was unveiled, together ...