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James Clerk Maxwell
1878 - Glenlair, Kirkcudbrightshire
At Glenlair in the Scottish hills, a physicist whose equations unified light and magnetism reflects on a life spent making the invisible visible.
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James Clerk Maxwell
1878 - Glenlair, Kirkcudbrightshire
At Glenlair in the Scottish hills, a physicist whose equations unified light and magnetism reflects on a life spent making the invisible visible.
