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James Clerk Maxwell
MENTIONS 1LAST SEEN MAY 29, 2026
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19th-century Scottish physicist who unified electricity and magnetism into the theory of electromagnetism.
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mention·Lex Fridman·MAY 29, 2026
“In about the 1860s or so, James Clark Maxwell took all of those ideas that had been percolating around for the previous 50 years and wrote his laws of electromagnetism... the speed at which these waves move is the speed of light.”
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