| | Born 13 June, 14 India Street |
| | Moved to Glenlair |
| | Enrolled, Edinburgh Academy |
| | Maxwell&#;s first paper &#; On the description of oval curves and those having a plurality of foci&#; Proc Roy Soc Edinburgh, Vol. II |
| –50 | Studied, University of Edinburgh |
| | Entered Peterhouse College, Cambridge - after one term migrated to Trinity College |
| | Mathematical Tripos &#; 2nd Wrangler and First (Equal) Smith&#;s Prizeman |
| –60 | Appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy (physics) at Marischal College, Aberdeen |
| | Elected Fellow Royal Society Edinburgh (FRSE) aged 24 |
| | Essay on &#;The Stability of Saturn&#;s Rings&#; won the Adams Prize, University of Cambridge |
| | Marriage to Katherine Mary Dewar on 2 June, Old Machar, Aberdeen |
| | Paper &#;Illustrations of the Dynamical Theory of Gasses&#; where the Maxwell-Bolzman distribution for velocities in a gas are derived |
| –65 | Appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy (physics) at Kings College, London |
| | Awarded Rumford Medal, Royal Society |
| | Royal Institution, first demonstration on colour reproduction |
| | Elected Fellow Royal Society (FRS) shortly before 30th birthday |
| /2 | &#;On physical lines of force&#;, Phil.Biography of maxwell james clerk In his paper "On governors" he mathematically described the behaviour of governors —devices that control the speed of steam engines—thereby establishing the theoretical basis of control engineering. Wikiquote has quotations related to James Clerk Maxwell. Archived from the original on 17 March Retrieved 9 September Mag. Vols. 21 & Calculates that electric and magnetic effects travel at speed of light and states &#; can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena.&#; |
| | Famous oral presentation: &#;Dynamical theory of the electromagnetic field&#; presented to Royal Society containing &#;Maxwell&#;s Equations&#; states &#;..
that it seems we have strong reason to conclude that light itself (including radiant heat and other radiations if any) is an electromagnetic disturbance in the form of waves propagated &#;&#;according to the electromagnetic laws&#; |
| | Above paper, &#;Dynamical theory of the electromagnetic field&#;, formally published in Phil.
Trans. Volta alessandro Marischal College, Aberdeen, — Previous post. By Tim Lambert. With the publication of " A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field " in , Maxwell demonstrated that electric and magnetic fields travel through space as waves moving at the speed of light.Roy. Soc., Vol. CLV, London |
| | Bakerian Lecture of the Royal Society: &#;On the viscosity or internal friction of air and other gases&#;, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. (Vol. CLVI) London. Includes measurements made in his London attic |
| | &#;On a method of making a direct comparison of electrostatic with electromagnetic force; with a note on the electromagnetic theory of light&#;, Phil.Maxwell james clerk biography template What is done by what is called myself is, I feel, done by something greater than myself in me. Here alone all is free. In the second additional part, he dealt with the rotation of the plane of the polarisation of light in a magnetic field, a phenomenon that had been discovered by Faraday and is now known as the Faraday effect. Archived from the original on 3 July Trans. Roy. Soc. (Vol. CLVIII) London, Includes consequence of definitions of electromagnetic and electrostatic units of electric charge which makes their ratio equal to the speed of light |
| | &#;On governors&#;, Proc. Roy. Soc. (Vol.James Clerk Maxwell - Wikipedia Maxwell used the recently developed linear algebra to prove Young's theory. On a par with Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein. I stand on the shoulders of Maxwell. Watch Next. XVI) London. First mathematical treatment of feedback leading to control theory and cybernetics |
| | Awarded Keith Prize, Royal Society of Edinburgh |
| | &#;On reciprocal figures, frames and diagrams of forces&#;, Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh Vol. This follow-up to a paper by G B Airy on elasticity led to award (see above) of RSE Keith Medal |
| | &#;On hills and dales&#;, Phil.
Mag. Vol. An early contribution to the mathematics of topology |
| | Awarded Doctor of Law (LLD), University of Edinburgh |
| | Awarded Hopkins Prize, University of Cambridge |
| | Published his textbook &#;Theory of Heat&#; |
| | Directed and established Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, as First Professor of Experimental Physics |
| | Second lecture on colour at Royal Institution: &#;On colour vision&#; |
| | Publication of his &#;Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism&#;, Oxford University Press |
| | Elected Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston |
| | Elected Member of American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia |
| | Elected Corresponding Member, Royal Society of Sciences of Göttingen |
| | Awarded Doctor of Civil Law (DCL), University of Oxford |
| | Elected Honorary Member, New York Academy of Sciences |
| | Published book &#;Matter and Motion&#; |
| | Elected Member, Royal Academy of Sciences of Amsterdam |
| | Elected Foreign Corresponding Member, Mathematico-Natural-Science Class of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Vienna |
| | Delivers Rede Lecture at Cambridge: &#;The Telephone&#; |
| | Volta Medal, Doctor of Sciences honoris causa, University of Pavia |
| | Dies of stomach cancer on 5 November, Cambridge.
Buried in Parton, Castle Douglas, Galloway. |
| | Edinburgh statue unveiled on 25 November |