James Clerk Maxwell

Unified electricity, magnetism, and light into a single electromagnetic theory.

Core Principles & Analysis

• Showed in the 1860s that light is an electromagnetic wave.
• Produced the first durable color photograph in 1861 using red, green, and blue filters.
• Co-developed the kinetic theory of gases, including the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution.

Specifications & Metrics

• ERA: 1831 – 1879