Isaac Newton Room
(1831 – 1879)
James Maxwell, a Scottish physicist and mathematician considered the 19th-century scientist who most influenced 20th-century physics, is known for having given final form to the modern theory of electromagnetism, which unites electricity, magnetism, and optics.
This is the theory that arises from Maxwell's equations, so named in his honor and because he was the first to write them, combining Ampère's law, modified by Maxwell, Gauss's law, and Faraday's law of induction.
Maxwell demonstrated that electric and magnetic fields propagate at the speed of light.