James Clerk Maxwell

Famous British physicist James Clerk Maxwell was well known through the formulation of four statements that describe the basic laws of electricity and magnets.
Both these areas before Maxwell was being investigated for a long time and had the same note there is a link between the two. However, despite the various laws of electricity and kemagnitan already discovered and contains the truth in some ways, before Maxwell, none of those laws which are one unified theory. In this he has four sets of laws that were formulated in short (but have a high weight), Maxwell managed to correctly describe the behavior and mutual relations between electric and magnetic fields. With so he changed a large number of phenomena into a single theory to hold. Opinions Maxwell has become role models in the previous century widely both in theory and in the sectors of science practice.
The most important value of, the new Maxwell's opinion is: a lot of general equations that can happen in all circumstances. All the laws of electric and magnetic pre-existing can be derived from Maxwell's opinion, as well as a large number of other law, which was once the theory is not known. From Maxwell's opinion can be shown how pergoyangan alternating electromagnetic field on a periodic basis is something that can happen. Movement back and forth like a pendulum is called electromagnetic waves, which when it is moved will continue until the space to spread out.From these opinions are able to show that the velocity of electromagnetic waves that reach about 300,000 kilometers (186,000 miles) per second. Maxwell knows that this is the same as the size of the speed of light. From this angle he rightly concluded that light itself consists of electromagnetic waves.
Thus, Maxwell's opinion is not merely a basic law of electricity and kemagnitan, but also it is also the basic law of optics. Indeed, all previous laws, known as optical laws can be attributed to his opinion, too many facts and relationships with the things that used to be unspeakable.
Light visible to the eye is not only possible type of electromagnetic radiation. Opinions Maxwell showed that electromagnetic waves other, unlike visible light in the eye he had a wavelength and frequency, there may be. This theoretical conclusion is strengthened by wonderfully Heinrich Hertz, who could produce and meet the two waves visible to the eye that was predicted by Maxwell. A few years later Guglielmo Marconi demonstrating that the invisible waves that the eye can be used for communication without wires, so what's his name menjelmalah radio. Now, we use also make the television, X-rays, gamma rays, infrared rays, ultraviolet rays are examples of electromagnetic radiation. Everything can be learned through the results of Maxwell's ideas.
Although the fame of the most prominent Maxwell lies in mind the tremendous contributions in electromagnetic fields and optics, he is also an important contribution to science in other ways, including the theories of astronomy and thermodynamics (heat affairs investigation). One particular interest is the kinetic theory of gases. Maxwell realized that not all gas molecules move at the same speed. Some slower, some faster, and some with remarkable speed. Maxwell tried a special formula to show the smallest molecules to move (in a certain temperature) at a specific speed. This formula is called "the spread of Maxwell," is the formula most widely used in scientific formulas, and contains an important meaning and benefits of each branch of physics.
Maxwell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1831. He developed an early teramatlah: at the age of fifteen he was already able to offer a scientific paper to the "Royal Society of Edinburgh." He entered Edinburgh University and graduated from the University of Cambridge. Married, but childless. Maxwell is generally considered the greatest theorists in the field of physics in the period between Newton and Einstein. A brilliant career ended too soon because he died in 1879 due to attack cancer, not long after celebrating the birthday-48.