James Clerk Maxwell By: Courtney Shrock, Jordan Medsker, Hanna Mcnutt, Ben Agnew

 Born: June 13, 1831 in Edinburgh, United Kingdom  Died: November 05, 1879 in Cambridge, United KingdomNationality: British  Occupation: Physicist  He created the electromagnetic theory.

 Maxwell was a prodigy.  He solved geometric problems and wrote explanations that intrigued academics in his early age.  As he considered how charged particles interact with their surrounding area

 His father inherited a house in Edinburgh and land in the countryside. His parents were waiting for their country house to be built.  Moved shortly after he was born. His father was a lawyer but was not very aggressive in pursuing new business.  John Clerk Maxwell was his father who enjoyed studying science and building mechanical devices.  James was very close to his father all of his life.  Maxwell's mother died suddenly when he was eight years old.  For two years after his mother's death, he was educated by a series of tutors, but none were found suitable for Maxwell and his unique way of learning.  His father and his aunt arranged for him to begin studies at the Edinburgh Academy.

 In 1847, at the age 16, maxwell began his collage studies at the university of Edinburgh. He spent three years three during this time, he contributed two papers to the Edinburgh royal society  Maxwell studied at trinity from early 1851 until he graduated 1854  After graduation he was awarded fellowship  After his father died on April 1855, he accepted the position at marischal

 In 1865 he married Katherine Dewar  He went to marischal  He went to Kings College in London  He resigned in 1865  Then he spent five years writing a book

 Maxwell did his work for Cambridge so he could stay in academia  While he was 8 years as a Cavedish professor he prepared to work for the experiment papers Henry Cavendish had written  In May 1879 Maxwells health was beginning to fail  He tried to go back to Cambridge but he could barley walk  He died at the age of 48 from Abdominal cancer in 1879  Maxwell died yesterday on November 5, 1879 which was 135 years ago

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