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burgh, to John Clerk, an advocate, and Frances Cay. [10][11]My father was a man of comfortable
means[12] of the Clerk family of Penicuik, holders of the baronetcy of Clerk of Penicuik.My
father's brother was the 6th Baronet. I had been born "John Clerk", adding the surname
Maxwell to my own after I inherited the Middlebie country estate near Corsock,
Kirkcudbrightshire, from connections to the Maxwell family,ourselves member of
the peerage.I was the first cousin of the artist Jemima Blackburn and cousin of the civil
engineer William Dyce Cay. We were close friends and Cay acted as my best man when I was

I was a Scottish[2][3] scientist in the field of mathematical physics.[4] My most notable

achievement was to formulate the classical theory ofelectromagnetic radiation, bringing
together for the first time electricity, magnetism, and light as manifestations of the same
phenomenon. My equations for electromagnetism have been called the "second great
unification in physics"[5] after the first one realised by Isaac Newton. With the publication
of A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field in 1865, l demonstrated

Hello my name is Heinrich Hertz. I was born in 1857 in Hamburg, then a sovereign state of
the German Confederation, into a prosperous and cultured Hanseatic family. My father Gustav
Ferdinand Hertz was a barrister and later a senator. [2] My mother was Anna Elisabeth
Pfefferkorn. My paternal grandfather, Heinrich David Hertz was a businessman, and my
paternal grandmother, Bertha "Betty" Oppenheim, was the daughter of the banker Salomon
Oppenheim, Jr. from Cologne. My paternal great-grandfather, David Wolff Hertz (17571822),
fourth son of Benjamin Wolff Hertz, moved to Hamburg in 1793, where he made his living as a

stence of electromagnetic waves theorized by James Clerk Maxwell's electromagnetic theory

of light. I proved the theory by engineering instruments to transmit and receive radio pulses
using experimental procedures that ruled out all other known wireless phenomena. The unit of

Hi! My name is Hans Christian Oersted. I was born in Rudkbing. As a young boy I
developed my interest in science while working for my father, who owned a pharmacy.
[4]
Me and my brother Anders received most of our early education through self-study at
home, going to Copenhagen in 1793 to take entrance exams for the University of
Copenhagen, we're both brothers excelled academically. By 1796 I had been awarded
honors for my papers in both aesthetics and physics. I earned my doctorate in 1799 for

I was a Danish physicist and chemist who discovered that electric

currents createmagnetic fields, an important aspect of electromagnetism. I still
known today for Oersted's Law. I shaped post-Kantian philosophy and advances in
science throughout the late 19th century.[3] In 1824, I founded Selskabet for

s born in Newington Butts,[6] which is now part of the London Borough of Southwark, but which
was then a suburban part of Surrey.[7] My family was not well off. My father, James, was a
member of the Glassite sect of Christianity. I moved my wife and two children to London during
the winter of 1790 from Outhgill in Westmorland, where I had been an apprentice to the village
blacksmith.[8]I was born the autumn of that year. The young me, who was the third of four
children, having only the most basic school education, had to educate myself.[9] At fourteen I

n English scientist who contributed to the fields

of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. My main discoveries include those

Hello! I am Andre-Marie Ampre. I was born on 20 January 1775 to Jean-Jacques Ampre, a

prosperous businessman, and Jeanne Antoinette Desutires-Sarcey Ampre during the height of
the French Enlightenment. I spent my childhood and adolescence at the family property
at Poleymieux-au-Mont-d'Or near Lyon.[3] Jean-Jacques Ampre, a successful merchant, was an
admirer of the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose theories of education (as outlined in
his treatise mile) were the basis of Ampres education. Rousseau believed that young boys
should avoid formal schooling and pursue instead an education direct from nature. My father

a French physicist and mathematician who was one of the founders of the science
of classical electromagnetism, which I referred to as "electrodynamics". The SI unit of
measurement of electric current, the ampere, is named after me.