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James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) is a Scottish physicist who unified electricity, magnetism, and optics into four mathematical equations, predicted electromagnetic waves, and demonstrated that light itself is electromagnetic radiation.
Why it matters
Maxwell's unification of electromagnetism ranks among the greatest intellectual breakthroughs in physics, directly enabling radio, television, and all wireless technology, while his statistical approach to gas molecules pioneered statistical mechanics.