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On this day in 1831 – June 13th – Scottish scientist James Clerk Maxwell was born in Edinburgh.

Maxwell showed that electricity, magnetism, and light are all aspects of the same phenomenon, electromagnetism. His discoveries helped usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundation for such fields as special relativity and quantum mechanics.


Mona Evans
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