(1831-1879)
He was born on June 13, 1831, in Edinburgh, Scotland. He died on November 5, 1879, in Cambridge, England.
Maxwell is regarded as one of the greatest theoretical physicists of all time, and one of the founders of kinetic theory of gases.
In 1846, at the age of fourteen, Maxwell wrote a work with methods for tracing oval curves.
In 1857 he published a work on the rings of Saturn.
Without a doubt, Maxwell's main contribution was a series of articles with the mathematical treatment of power lines, a concept introduced by Faraday to visualize electromagnetic phenomena. When Maxwell realized the connections between electric field and magnetic field, through the laws of Gauss, Ampère and Faraday, he enunciated, around 1864, the possibility of electromagnetic waves. These were to be detected more than 20 years later in experiments conducted by Hertz.
He published a set of four differential equations in which he describes the nature of electromagnetic fields in terms of space and time.