1. Scottish physicist whose equations unified electricity and magnetism and who recognized the electromagnetic nature of light (1831-1879); [syn: Maxwell, J. C. Maxwell, James Clerk Maxwell]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
James Clerk Maxwell
n 1: Scottish physicist whose equations unified electricity and
magnetism and who recognized the electromagnetic nature of
light (1831-1879) [syn: Maxwell, J. C. Maxwell, James
Clerk Maxwell]