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Chronicles the life of the father of electromagnatism, revealing how as a boy he was bullied by his classmates, became a scientist by the age of fifteen, and went on to revolutionize science and technology by discovering a force that would make TV, radio, and radar possible.
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This is the first biography in twenty years of James Clerk Maxwell, one of the greatest scientists of our time and yet a man relatively unknown to the wider public. Approaching science with a freshness unbound by convention or previous expectations, he produced some of the most original scientific thinking of the nineteenth century — and his discoveries went on to shape the twentieth century.
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