James Clerk Maxwell
<p>May 28, 2013 08:15 PM  today:  see Francis Everitt talk on Maxwell in Apl Physics colloq.
Maxwell:  died at age 48!  EM and optics into a single theory.
 
thy of classical EM  showed EM and LIGHT all manifestations of same phenom = DM field.
 
3rd greatest phys. of all time (after Newton and Einstein).  Einstein revered Maxwell.
mother was nearly 40 when he was born.
 
 
 
 
Feb 25, 2009 8:42 PM
 
No wonder people constantly surprise themselves as their bodies are led through an impossible turn on the ski slope or <b>their brains are seized with an idea that seems to pop out of nowhere.</b>
 
 
<b>Maxwell</b> himself marveled at this phenomenon in a quotation used as the epigraph here: <b>''What is done by what is called myself is, I feel, done by something greater than myself in me.''</b> But it was not some supernatural force using the great scientist as its instrument. He was merely in the grip of his own brain.</p>