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Biographical Materials
- James Clerk Maxwell: Maker of Waves
- James Clerk Maxwell: A Biography with Reference to His Time at King's College, London
- A Maxwell Chronology
- Maxwell's Degrees and Awards
- J. C. Maxwell's Heritage: the Ancestral Origins of his Genius
- Maxwell the Pawky Humorist
- Maxwell's poetry
Maxwell's Contributions to Science
- James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), Mathematical Physicist
- On Maxwell and Maxwellian views of charge and current
- Maxwell Distribution for the velocity of molecules (1859)
- Maxwell's Demon
- Maxwell's Equations of Electromagnetism (1864)
- Maxwell's Equation of Thermodynamics
- Dynamical Theory of Gases
- Color Vision
- "Molecules" (1873) — full text
Resources
- A James Clerk Maxwell Bibliography: Primary and secondary Sources
- Clerk Maxwell Foundation site (UK; contains downloadable papers and essays)
- Maxwell Year 2006 — the 175th anniversary of the birth of Scotland's greatest scientist (UK)
Victorian Science
- The Wave Theory of Light
- Physics in the Nineteenth Century
- Conservation of Energy and Thermodynamics
- Nineteenth-Century Physics: Suggested Further Readings
Last modified 25 June 2014