James Clerk Maxwell: The Man Who Unified Electricity and Magnetism

In the 1860s, James Clerk Maxwell formulated equations uniting electricity and magnetism.
His four equations showed that electric and magnetic fields are two aspects of the same force.
Maxwell predicted that light itself is an electromagnetic wave traveling through space.
His theory explained how changing electric fields generate magnetic fields, and vice versa.
Maxwell’s equations accurately described radio waves decades before they were discovered.
His work laid the foundation for technologies like radio, radar, and wireless communication.
Maxwell also pioneered color photography by demonstrating three-color light mixing.
Einstein later praised Maxwell’s equations as a key stepping stone to relativity.
Maxwell’s unification was as revolutionary in physics as Newton’s laws of motion.
Today, Maxwell’s equations remain central to physics, engineering, and everyday technology.