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- James Maxwell’s full name is James Clerk Maxwell.
- He was born on 13 June 1831 and he died on 5 November 1879.
- He is one of the greatest scientists in the world who ever lived.
- He is rightly acclaimed as the father of modern physics.
- He died of abdominal cancer
- He married Katherine Mary Dewar when he was 27 years old, but they had no children.
- He invented color photography.
- His work in geometrical optics led to the discovery of the fish-eye lens.
- He stated that light is a propagating wave of electric and magnetic field
- He was also a founder of the kinetic theory of gases.