Maxwell was Scottish. He wouldn't approve of a man crying over trivial things. Particularly over his reputation amongst non scientists. Make use of the electromagnetic force and pull yourself together man.
One of the things that saddened me the most during my younger years in school was knowing that such an important man got barely any recognition until he died. The world would probably have been different without James Clerk Maxwell.
i dont think he cared about recognition, an cared more about his passion. being a trailblazer is all about recognition. He almost likely didn't want to be famous whilst alive
Newton, Einsten, Feynman: these are our Gods. Maxwell is their God. (An analogy: as guitarists: Plini, Polyphia, CHON, Nick Johnston, etc. are our Gods. For them, Guthrie Govan is their God.)
His four equation's are already named after him. So no one will ever learn about the theoretical aspect of eclectromagnetism without hearing about him.
+PeterWatchesTheWatchmen I challenge you to find a college that cruelly throws its students into quantum electrodynamics and standard model without first having taught them maxwells equations. And a bunch of other stuff you need in order to wrestle with quantum physics.
Thank you for a laugh Jan! Don't worry Malte, the smaller you feel, the greater you are. Fools think of themselves as important, while the great ones know just how tiny they truly are.
My dad is the VP of an electromagnetic software company and they use Maxwell as their mascot (put his pic on all their marketing material). Never really knew much about him until this video. Thanks!
Thank you. Faraday provided the experimental observations that Maxwell provided mathematical models for in quaternion math. These two men were friends. Maxwellians including Oliver Heavyside converted Maxwell's 20 quaternion equations to the more understandable and useful 4 vector calculus equations we have today. It took many scientists and technicians to arrive where we are scientifically today. Many of these individuals are lost to history.
THANK YOU! Many docs leave Faraday’s CRUCIAL role in the discovery of electromagnetism. What makes it more amazing is the reason Michael Fereday couldn’t do the math is because he was 100% self-taught and grew up in extreme poverty! James Clerk Maxwell called the equation FARADAY’S LAW… Maxwell was a prolific genius but it’s Michael Faraday, who we have to thank for all our modern conveniences!
The equations we now call "Maxwell's Equations", in vector form, were set up by Oliver Heaviside, not Maxwell. Maxwell DID unify E&M but his formalism used several dozen equations involving quaternions. The quaternion formalism is much more complicated and difficult to use.
However, it was Maxwell's idea. Heaviside just translated that into more understandable equations. Heaviside was a brilliant mind on his own, though (just for vector analysis alone).
Heaviside distilled their meaning into vector form, which is clearer. Maxwell did all of the heavy legwork. My comment is regarding the text on 2:19. The equations Maxwell published are not what is "now known as Maxwell's Equations".
Just for you I looked up the original equations. ;-) really, they are mostly just the known equations written out component by component, at least if my source is correct. (On the Notation of MAXWELL’s Field Equations - André Waser). I mean if I write them in four vector form or component by component or three vector form, they are the Maxwell equations. A equation is not defined by it's looks, but by it's meaning. The laws of thermodynamics were always unrecognizable when I saw them in different lectures. But a short discussion reveals that the idea behind them is the same.
It's not exactly just a component by component rewrite though. That's oversimplifying it. The vector form of the equations are not entirely equivalent, and the formulation of Maxwell is considerably distinct from the way we formulate and understand electromagnetism today. Anyway, I just don't like disregarding the conceptual and mathematical work done by Heaviside, Gibbs, Hertz and others. They deserve credit for their influence in the theory. As for your point about "equations", I suppose you can say that. But I'd say a better term for what you mean would be "relations". There's a huge conceptual framework behind a specific way you write things. The mathematical formulation is important too! I mean, you could write all of classical and quantum physics, including electromagnetism, as δS = 0 (a minimum action principle). But I believe you'd hesitate to call that anything.
Great job on this, nice synopsis of Maxwell’s physics contributions in several areas. There is also a BBC production on Maxwell’s life and work, so cool. *Thanks!*
During an English class at the university, the teacher asked us "Who do you think was the most important scientist ever?" 90% of people almost instantly shouted Einstein... I thought for a while and said Maxwell... After a brief moment of silence it turned out Einstein was the only correct answer and the multitude of evidence hit me like a hailstorm. This video is like absolution to me. Thank you SciShow!
At 2:16 Hank says that Maxwell made the greatest discovery of the 20th century, when he died in 1879. I think Hank meant the greatest discovery of the 19th century.
Nice summary of such a great man. He worked at King's College, London (your picture is of King's, Cambridge, though he was at Trinity, Cambridge as a student before Aberdeen.) While at London, he worked with Michael Faraday - hard to imagine such a partnership, where their varied talents and empathetic temperaments formed one of the greatest scientific teams ever.
Ludwig Boltzmann, Erwin Schrödinger and Richard Feynman are others that come up to my mind. Maxwell was certainly very important and deserves to be in the list.
One of the best 3D rendering applications out there is called Maxwell Render, it's based off the electromagnetic equations by James Maxwell and is astonishing software.
@Hank Green: Maxwell work is based on Michael Faraday work, Faraday didn't have the mathematical background to describe his observations, Maxwell used Faraday's discoveries and papers. Faraday deserves more credit here Both were brilliant , one was from a poor background (Faraday) who invented the first electric motor, and Maxwell came from a privileged family.
@Maxwell's equation - I don’t care much for the popular praise for Tesla, which is more about woo than his actual accomplishments, but he certainly deserves praise for putting the theorizing of people like Maxwell to good work. As an engineer, I may be a bit biased.
please make a video on Oliver Heaviside - he needs more recognition. he effectively invented electrical engineering and was the guy who turned Maxwell's brilliant mess into the four beautiful equations.
Been continually looking at this person's work. I would loved to have worked with him. Standing on the shoulders of giants. Science has always existed in nature and Maxwell knew that. I will continue to look at this man's work till I die.
You should make a Great Minds episode about Carl Linnaeus, the 16th century Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist who came up with the idea to scientifically name and classify all living organisms
I'm not a scientist, though I appreciate his staggering accomplishments. Even more though, I admire his faithfulness to the Lord Jesus Christ. His minister wrote the following, "his (Maxwell's) illness drew out the whole heart and soul and spirit of the man: his firm and undoubting faith in the Incarnation and all its results; in the full sufficiency of the Atonement; in the work of the Holy Spirit. He had gauged and fathomed all the schemes and systems of philosophy, and had found them utterly empty and unsatisfying-"unworkable" was his own word about them-and he turned with simple faith to the Gospel of the Saviour."
Small nitpick: that was a photo of King’s College Cambridge, not London; however Maxwell founded and became the first head of the new Cavendish Laboratory as the department of physics at Cambridge University, a place where many significant discoveries have subsequently been made.
I love how as we advance in physics, we discover that many things are just two sides of the same coin. Electricity and magnetism. Mass and energy. Wave-particle duality. Even the electromagnetic force and weak nuclear force form into the electroweak force past a critical energy level. I am hopeful a genius out there can discover a Grand Unified theory of physics in my lifetime.
I'm not trying to belittle Maxwell, but Faraday had already laid the groundwork for electromagnetism way before Maxwell did. Maxwell simply gave us the mathematical framework for it. If Faraday hadn't been a victim of poverty and hence unable to get an education in mathematics, it's extremely likely that he would've formulated the equations, not Maxwell. Faraday remains one of the most underrated physicists of all time.
I get your point but remember that this video is about Maxwell, not Faraday. If they make a video about him, then they can praise him then. They should have mentioned his influence to maxwell's breakthrough but let's just be happy with the technology that we have today thanks to this guy....
James Clerk Maxwell is a lot like Ariana Grande: He discovered why Saturn's rings didn't *Break free* or *Bang bang* into each other He put electricity and magnetism *Side to side* He solved the *Problem* of color photography
I was under the impression that it was Faraday who discovered that light, electricity and magnetism were all intertwined. At least, that's what Cosmos said in one of their episodes.
No mention of Michael Faraday... who inspired Maxwell... and came up with the idea of electromagnetism... and hypothesized that light was electromagnetic waves.
Without them we wouldn't have Maxwell's Equations. Just a line of "yo these other dudes did some things and then Maxwell carried the torch" would be fine. Just a footnote is all I need.
I totally agree with hksin11186. I admire Maxwell a lot but it is not fair to ignore the other giants of physics without whom Maxwell might not have made his great contributions. The works of Gauss, Ampere, Faraday etc were instrumental to Maxwell's equations. Even the great Einstein made it a point to acknowledge the giants on whom he stood.
Celtic Warrior Nobody is disparaging Maxwell's work, first of all. Second, I'm not sure you understand how theories and facts work, because one does not graduate into the other.
I'm not sure if he's the right type of person, but I learned about Michael Collins the other day. I'd never heard of the man before, though I'd certainly known about his co-workers, Neil Armstrong and Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin. I thought I'd recommend the third man of Apollo-11 as a possible future person for Great Minds.
To understand Maxwell you need to understand Faraday. Faraday was the experimental physicist and Maxwell the theorist. Faraday, Ampere and co. created the colors, Maxwell made a picture out of them.
I know of a lot of physicists as i suspect most people who subscribe to this channel do, but only ones i could think of when i heard the first question, other then the 2 mentioned was Bohr and "Higgs boson" (its how i remember Higgs)
weak hyper charge, usually people who use the term pseudo intellectual are exactly that. there is such a thing as knowing too much compared to the masses, and i'm in the blessed/cursed position to be lonely like that in the top of the mountain. and if there are like 10.000 people in the 7 billions with the same knowledge, then yes, you can call that loneliness.
i could be wrong, but you also have to entertain the slight possiblity i could be right, but i tell you one thing. you already shown YOU DONT have what it takes to even discern that if we were to have a serious discussion. so your criticism is as important as your contribution to said discussion would be. almost nil that is.
Einstein also did a lot more than special and general relativity. He mathematically derived brownian motion, published his theory that the speed of light is absolute where lengths and times are relative, determined that the photoelectric effect only makes sense in terms of Plank's quantized light, and determined that energy has mass. These previous four things he published in a single year when he was 25. And he went on to theorize that gravity is just spacetime curvature, and help develop the statistics of quantum physics. Maxwell was also amazing. But in my highly subjective opinion, Einstein was greater. Gauss should also be on the list too. 4th or 5th maybe?
Well when it comes to E&M he build a lot on Faraday's work, and Ampere. Maxwell's equations already existed before Maxwell, he just put it into a more formal math
This is why it's good that medical knowledge and health care is generally rising over time. We don't know for sure who the next genius of whatever field of study might be. So we have to increase the statistical average that people live, in the hopes that the people that will make major contributions to our collective knowledge, will actually live a long and productive life. There is also the consideration that people collect expertise, knowledge, wisdom, and general ‘brain stuff’ over time, so even the general population will be able to reach a greater level of ability, if they get older. Of course, you need a good education system too. And there are many things that contribute or detract from education of the populous. But even non-geniuses can and do improve our pool of knowledge. It's just that some concepts are more difficult to form and grasp from scattered evidence in the first place.
I think it's more an ignorance to phonology, like how it's impossible for Germans to say "squirrel" (which is horribly horribly worded; it's more like "German speakers using ONLY German phonology cannot pronounce words in the English language whose order of letters does not occur in German or creates a sound that does not work", which when worded like that applies to any two languages and any weird-looking word within one of those languages). I have a hard time looking at Welsh, for example.
Excellent episode as always, though slightly amused that the picture is of King's College, University of Cambridge, rather than any of the campuses of King's College London
This made me cry. Maxwell needs more love people!
Same.
He gets enough love in the Physics community, but elsewhere he's not as popular as Newton or Einstein.
DekuStickGamer I'm guessing you are a fellow physicist?
Antonio Lewis Hello, my friend! Nice cosmic background radiation we're receiving today, huh?
Maxwell was Scottish. He wouldn't approve of a man crying over trivial things. Particularly over his reputation amongst non scientists. Make use of the electromagnetic force and pull yourself together man.
One of the things that saddened me the most during my younger years in school was knowing that such an important man got barely any recognition until he died. The world would probably have been different without James Clerk Maxwell.
The world was different pre-Maxwell.
"The only desire which I can have is like David to serve my own generation by the will of God, and then fall asleep."
- James Clerk Maxwell
i dont think he cared about recognition, an cared more about his passion. being a trailblazer is all about recognition. He almost likely didn't want to be famous whilst alive
Damn, I had no idea Maxwell was this influential. It's really a shame he didn't live longer.
Newton, Einsten, Feynman: these are our Gods. Maxwell is their God.
(An analogy: as guitarists: Plini, Polyphia, CHON, Nick Johnston, etc. are our Gods. For them, Guthrie Govan is their God.)
Plini ftw
Undoubtedly Feynman is great, but his contributions pales in significance when compared to those of Newton, Maxwell and Einstein.
Aniruddha Of course, but among modern scientists (post-Einstein), I think he's definitely the name to pick.
Well damn. Imagine if Maxwell had lived long enough to work along with Einstein and Plank.
Einstein did not get to see Maxwell.
:(
:(
u just opened my eyes nocap
But Einstein had studied him deeply ❤️
@Taimoor Khan It's true. Einstein would have been out of luck without Maxwell.
We should call it Electromaxwellism
His four equation's are already named after him. So no one will ever learn about the theoretical aspect of eclectromagnetism without hearing about him.
Except we've already merged it with the Weak Nuclear force, having it named Electroweak.
+PeterWatchesTheWatchmen I challenge you to find a college that cruelly throws its students into quantum electrodynamics and standard model without first having taught them maxwells equations. And a bunch of other stuff you need in order to wrestle with quantum physics.
Agreed
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I always feel so extremely small and unimportant when watchings the 'great minds' series.
Yeah I share that feel too, especially the ones with the scientists being like 15 or 16 and already changing the world
You have to study a ton. No smart guy can do those things without studying.
You are one of the 7.4 Billion People on the planet that will never do anything important
Thank you for a laugh Jan! Don't worry Malte, the smaller you feel, the greater you are. Fools think of themselves as important, while the great ones know just how tiny they truly are.
Felony Videos The great ones know how great the world can be.
Forget Wallace and Bruce. Maxwell is the real pride of Scotland. Our greatest gift to the world.
I still prefer William Wallace.
What about Wallace & Gromit?
Burns* ;)
+Tyler Timber Just you wait, another referendum is likely in its way, with a MUCH different predicted outcome due to Brexit.
Great Britain*... know your place savage.
Thanks Maxwell. For contribution in semiconductor properties and electromagnetic waves.
My dad is the VP of an electromagnetic software company and they use Maxwell as their mascot (put his pic on all their marketing material). Never really knew much about him until this video. Thanks!
Maxwell theories and insights are still having an effect on the world we live in. Thanks
Thank you.
Faraday provided the experimental observations that Maxwell provided mathematical models for in quaternion math. These two men were friends.
Maxwellians including Oliver Heavyside converted Maxwell's 20 quaternion equations to the more understandable and useful 4 vector calculus equations we have today.
It took many scientists and technicians to arrive where we are scientifically today. Many of these individuals are lost to history.
Basil Mahon wrote a recent biography on Heaviside. It's a great read.
THANK YOU! Many docs leave Faraday’s CRUCIAL role in the discovery of electromagnetism. What makes it more amazing is the reason Michael Fereday couldn’t do the math is because he was 100% self-taught and grew up in extreme poverty! James Clerk Maxwell called the equation FARADAY’S LAW… Maxwell was a prolific genius but it’s Michael Faraday, who we have to thank for all our modern conveniences!
A great episode for one of the greatest minds of all time
I really love the 'greatest minds' series and when you discuss the history of science. Thank you!
no Maxwell, no microwave, no microwave, no pizza rolls, no pizza rolls, no will to live... We all owe Maxwell big time
damn !!
As a Scottish person, this makes me really proud
Ugh...
Nationalists
@@maxwellsequation4887
🤮 liberals who hate there nation
so glad you guys finally covered this guy! he was such a scientific badass and an unsung hero
The equations we now call "Maxwell's Equations", in vector form, were set up by Oliver Heaviside, not Maxwell. Maxwell DID unify E&M but his formalism used several dozen equations involving quaternions. The quaternion formalism is much more complicated and difficult to use.
However, it was Maxwell's idea. Heaviside just translated that into more understandable equations. Heaviside was a brilliant mind on his own, though (just for vector analysis alone).
Heaviside distilled their meaning into vector form, which is clearer. Maxwell did all of the heavy legwork.
My comment is regarding the text on 2:19. The equations Maxwell published are not what is "now known as Maxwell's Equations".
Just for you I looked up the original equations. ;-) really, they are mostly just the known equations written out component by component, at least if my source is correct. (On the Notation of MAXWELL’s Field Equations - André Waser). I mean if I write them in four vector form or component by component or three vector form, they are the Maxwell equations. A equation is not defined by it's looks, but by it's meaning.
The laws of thermodynamics were always unrecognizable when I saw them in different lectures. But a short discussion reveals that the idea behind them is the same.
It's not exactly just a component by component rewrite though. That's oversimplifying it.
The vector form of the equations are not entirely equivalent, and the formulation of Maxwell is considerably distinct from the way we formulate and understand electromagnetism today.
Anyway, I just don't like disregarding the conceptual and mathematical work done by Heaviside, Gibbs, Hertz and others. They deserve credit for their influence in the theory.
As for your point about "equations", I suppose you can say that. But I'd say a better term for what you mean would be "relations". There's a huge conceptual framework behind a specific way you write things. The mathematical formulation is important too!
I mean, you could write all of classical and quantum physics, including electromagnetism, as δS = 0 (a minimum action principle). But I believe you'd hesitate to call that anything.
Maxwell's only contribution to the equations was "displacement current"- one small term, added to the end of only one of the equations.
ERROR: Kings college shown is actually Kings college at Cambridge. NOT kings college london.
They moved. Yesterday.
ERROR: No one cares.
+Aaron J I do
I actually do care
OKAY, Karen's son
Also, maxwell's thermodynamic relationships:
(dT/dV)s = -(dP/dS)v
(dT/dP)s=(dV/dS)p
(dS/dV)t=(dP/dT)v
(dS/dP)t=(dV/dT)p
Smart guy
exactly ! thank you for mentioning this
The collaboration between Faraday and Maxwell is grossly underappreciated.
Great job on this, nice synopsis of Maxwell’s physics contributions in several areas. There is also a BBC production on Maxwell’s life and work, so cool. *Thanks!*
Like I effin waited for this moment for an eternity by now ! Maxwell the best physicist ever lived ❤
Makes me even more proud to be a Scotsman the world simply wouldn't be the same place without my beautiful nation
That forgotten genius between Newton and Einstein.
During an English class at the university, the teacher asked us "Who do you think was the most important scientist ever?"
90% of people almost instantly shouted Einstein...
I thought for a while and said Maxwell...
After a brief moment of silence it turned out Einstein was the only correct answer and the multitude of evidence hit me like a hailstorm.
This video is like absolution to me. Thank you SciShow!
True. Without Maxwell there would be no Einstein (Einstein said it himself).
The picture is of King's College in Cambridge, not London.
Yup
Definitely.
Somebody in the pictures department screwed up didn't they XD
KCL's got a big picture of J.C. Maxwell outside of it too lol
yh they basically bring him up any change they get. Over a 100 years later still claiming cred
About time!! He needs more recognition from the general public.
*One of the my favorite scientist is James Maxwell* 💙❤💜*
I'm surprised they spoke of his equations but didn't mention his work with Faraday which inspired those equations.
4:23 * I don't have words just say__I LOVE YOU MAXWELL*
At 2:16 Hank says that Maxwell made the greatest discovery of the 20th century, when he died in 1879. I think Hank meant the greatest discovery of the 19th century.
Definitely should've given Faraday more credit here...
Faraday is already famous. Maxwell's work was equally important (if not more) and he barely got any recognition even after he died.
Nice summary of such a great man. He worked at King's College, London (your picture is of King's, Cambridge, though he was at Trinity, Cambridge as a student before Aberdeen.) While at London, he worked with Michael Faraday - hard to imagine such a partnership, where their varied talents and empathetic temperaments formed one of the greatest scientific teams ever.
Very well written. Kudos!
I guess you can say that this is electrifying
Stunningly bad.
Lighten up
Electromagnetically bad!
+imfrommanndame ....That was horrible.
Yes, that was the point.
Awesome episode. I love the Great Minds series. :) Thanks, guys & gals.
Ludwig Boltzmann, Erwin Schrödinger and Richard Feynman are others that come up to my mind. Maxwell was certainly very important and deserves to be in the list.
I'd put Dirac (and possibly Heisenberg) above schrodinger for quantum mechanics
MY FAVOURITE SCIENTISTS James clerk Maxwell....
One of the best 3D rendering applications out there is called Maxwell Render, it's based off the electromagnetic equations by James Maxwell and is astonishing software.
@Hank Green: Maxwell work is based on Michael Faraday work, Faraday didn't have the mathematical background to describe his observations, Maxwell used Faraday's discoveries and papers.
Faraday deserves more credit here
Both were brilliant , one was from a poor background (Faraday) who invented the first electric motor, and Maxwell came from a privileged family.
And Nikola Tesla made the world we know today !!
Not just Faraday. How about Gauss and Ampere.
@@abanoubsameh6608 umm....
NO
Maxwell and Faraday did electromagnetism
Tesla is so overrated
@Maxwell's equation - I don’t care much for the popular praise for Tesla, which is more about woo than his actual accomplishments, but he certainly deserves praise for putting the theorizing of people like Maxwell to good work. As an engineer, I may be a bit biased.
please make a video on Oliver Heaviside - he needs more recognition. he effectively invented electrical engineering and was the guy who turned Maxwell's brilliant mess into the four beautiful equations.
Been continually looking at this person's work. I would loved to have worked with him. Standing on the shoulders of giants. Science has always existed in nature and Maxwell knew that. I will continue to look at this man's work till I die.
You make his biography so interesting!
James Clerk Maxwell helped to relieve people of Tinnitus through electromagnetism Bless him!!!
Maybe it's just the Scottish accent, but I've always heard it pronounced James "Clark" Maxwell.
I just said "clah-rrk" to myself, and holy shit, it sounds Scottish!
You've heard it right. "Clerk" should always be pronounced "Clark".
Same here.
The first American I've ever heard who's pronounced Edinburgh properly!
Maxwell has inspired me for years. Keep up the good work : )
Y'know, I never quite understood why the electromagnetic spectrum was so called, given that it deals with photons. Now I get it! Thanks!
You should make a Great Minds episode about Carl Linnaeus, the 16th century Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist who came up with the idea to scientifically name and classify all living organisms
I'm using this for my Science report tomorrow!
Break A leg !
Maxwell is my hero. He is one of the greatest scientist that has ever lived.
I'm not a scientist, though I appreciate his staggering accomplishments. Even more though, I admire his faithfulness to the Lord Jesus Christ. His minister wrote the following, "his (Maxwell's) illness drew out the whole heart and soul and spirit of the man: his firm and undoubting faith in the Incarnation and all its results; in the full sufficiency of the Atonement; in the work of the Holy Spirit. He had gauged and fathomed all the schemes and systems of philosophy, and had found them utterly empty and unsatisfying-"unworkable" was his own word about them-and he turned with simple faith to the Gospel of the Saviour."
Love this episode
these great minds never die and let we to live and serve humanity when we r in distress.
My top 5:
Newton
Einstein
Maxwell
Planck
Faraday
Small nitpick: that was a photo of King’s College Cambridge, not London; however Maxwell founded and became the first head of the new Cavendish Laboratory as the department of physics at Cambridge University, a place where many significant discoveries have subsequently been made.
I love how as we advance in physics, we discover that many things are just two sides of the same coin. Electricity and magnetism. Mass and energy. Wave-particle duality. Even the electromagnetic force and weak nuclear force form into the electroweak force past a critical energy level. I am hopeful a genius out there can discover a Grand Unified theory of physics in my lifetime.
MICHAEL FARADAY!!!!!!!!! Thank you to Michael without him maxwell wouldn’t have known to test this theory out!
*Wow. It's amazing to know I'm related to this guy.*
My all time favorite... JCM. Einstein is nobody in front of JCM.
Maxwell is the father of electromagnetic theory
I'm not trying to belittle Maxwell, but Faraday had already laid the groundwork for electromagnetism way before Maxwell did. Maxwell simply gave us the mathematical framework for it. If Faraday hadn't been a victim of poverty and hence unable to get an education in mathematics, it's extremely likely that he would've formulated the equations, not Maxwell. Faraday remains one of the most underrated physicists of all time.
I can't believe you did this entire video and didn't mention Maxwell's silver hammer.
Can you do one on cerebral aneurysms? I had one rupture at 19 and would love to learn more!
Thank you for teaching me.
If you want to do another relatively unknown but very important genius, do Euler.
Oliver Heavyside - took Maxwells complex idea, and actually wrote the simplified, "Maxwell's Equations", we evaluate today.
He is one of the greatest people to have ever lived.
Why has Faraday been completely ignored here? He deserves as much credit as anyone of them!...
I get your point but remember that this video is about Maxwell, not Faraday. If they make a video about him, then they can praise him then. They should have mentioned his influence to maxwell's breakthrough but let's just be happy with the technology that we have today thanks to this guy....
James Clerk Maxwell is a lot like Ariana Grande:
He discovered why Saturn's rings didn't *Break free* or *Bang bang* into each other
He put electricity and magnetism *Side to side*
He solved the *Problem* of color photography
Don't let anyone tell you you can't sing, Hank! I saw the collab with Peter Hollens, I'm a fan!
Well done Sir. Maxwell is one of Britain's greatest people, and yet many don't even know who this giant of a man s.
Carl Sagan pays homage to Maxwell in "The Demon Haunted World."
It's really amazing that how much money can influence the reality
Excellent many thanks
I was under the impression that it was Faraday who discovered that
light, electricity and magnetism were all intertwined. At least, that's
what Cosmos said in one of their episodes.
No mention of Michael Faraday... who inspired Maxwell... and came up with the idea of electromagnetism... and hypothesized that light was electromagnetic waves.
No mention of Faraday in all this?
There's also no mention of Gauss or Ampere, who also informed Maxwell's equations. Nor should there be, this video isn't about them.
Without them we wouldn't have Maxwell's Equations. Just a line of "yo these other dudes did some things and then Maxwell carried the torch" would be fine. Just a footnote is all I need.
I totally agree with hksin11186. I admire Maxwell a lot but it is not fair to ignore the other giants of physics without whom Maxwell might not have made his great contributions. The works of Gauss, Ampere, Faraday etc were instrumental to Maxwell's equations. Even the great Einstein made it a point to acknowledge the giants on whom he stood.
yeah faraday was the father of electromagnetism, he's the third most influential physicists fuck maxwell.
Celtic Warrior Nobody is disparaging Maxwell's work, first of all. Second, I'm not sure you understand how theories and facts work, because one does not graduate into the other.
First time I have ever hear Maxwell's middle name pronounced this way.
I love this video way too much, I feel strange. Maxwell the great!
Thank you sir
This really helped with my research project. I learned a lot! Thank you!
I'm not sure if he's the right type of person, but I learned about Michael Collins the other day. I'd never heard of the man before, though I'd certainly known about his co-workers, Neil Armstrong and Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin. I thought I'd recommend the third man of Apollo-11 as a possible future person for Great Minds.
I'm studying physics and I have had several moments, where I was like WFT Maxwell, how did you do this ?
Wow, all of this and i never heard of him.
How come I have never heard of this dude?!
To understand Maxwell you need to understand Faraday. Faraday was the experimental physicist and Maxwell the theorist. Faraday, Ampere and co. created the colors, Maxwell made a picture out of them.
Newton - Maxwell - Tesla..... All Physics is these 3 peoples Work 🌞!
underrated scientist
I know of a lot of physicists as i suspect most people who subscribe to this channel do, but only ones i could think of when i heard the first question, other then the 2 mentioned was Bohr and "Higgs boson" (its how i remember Higgs)
Maxwell is more important than Einstein!!!!!!!
shuuush. the sheep might wake up from their slumber!
weak hyper charge, usually people who use the term pseudo intellectual are exactly that. there is such a thing as knowing too much compared to the masses, and i'm in the blessed/cursed position to be lonely like that in the top of the mountain. and if there are like 10.000 people in the 7 billions with the same knowledge, then yes, you can call that loneliness.
i could be wrong, but you also have to entertain the slight possiblity i could be right, but i tell you one thing. you already shown YOU DONT have what it takes to even discern that if we were to have a serious discussion. so your criticism is as important as your contribution to said discussion would be. almost nil that is.
Einstein also did a lot more than special and general relativity. He mathematically derived brownian motion, published his theory that the speed of light is absolute where lengths and times are relative, determined that the photoelectric effect only makes sense in terms of Plank's quantized light, and determined that energy has mass. These previous four things he published in a single year when he was 25. And he went on to theorize that gravity is just spacetime curvature, and help develop the statistics of quantum physics.
Maxwell was also amazing. But in my highly subjective opinion, Einstein was greater.
Gauss should also be on the list too. 4th or 5th maybe?
Yes he is, Einstein would agree with you.
Well when it comes to E&M he build a lot on Faraday's work, and Ampere. Maxwell's equations already existed before Maxwell, he just put it into a more formal math
This is why it's good that medical knowledge and health care is generally rising over time. We don't know for sure who the next genius of whatever field of study might be. So we have to increase the statistical average that people live, in the hopes that the people that will make major contributions to our collective knowledge, will actually live a long and productive life.
There is also the consideration that people collect expertise, knowledge, wisdom, and general ‘brain stuff’ over time, so even the general population will be able to reach a greater level of ability, if they get older. Of course, you need a good education system too. And there are many things that contribute or detract from education of the populous. But even non-geniuses can and do improve our pool of knowledge. It's just that some concepts are more difficult to form and grasp from scattered evidence in the first place.
Magnets. Principal Skinner would love this episode.
So a Maxwell and a Maxim are the two most influencial forces of the 20th century.
YAY! I'm just happy you pronounced Aberdeen and Edinburgh properly.
But sadly could not pronounce the man's name right.
I've heard ee-din-berg plenty of times, but no idea how you could get Aberdeen wrong?
Aber-de-ean
Emma Morrison That seems less of an ignorance to Scotland and more of an ignorance to Language.
I think it's more an ignorance to phonology, like how it's impossible for Germans to say "squirrel" (which is horribly horribly worded; it's more like "German speakers using ONLY German phonology cannot pronounce words in the English language whose order of letters does not occur in German or creates a sound that does not work", which when worded like that applies to any two languages and any weird-looking word within one of those languages).
I have a hard time looking at Welsh, for example.
Dying at 48 and still more influential than anyone else in the history who lived longer than him.
By the looks of it KCL has had a makeover since I was there last.
The photo is of King's College, Cambridge.
Great video. As always
olha o Braga, hoje empataste com o gent xD
Awesome topic
Excellent episode as always, though slightly amused that the picture is of King's College, University of Cambridge, rather than any of the campuses of King's College London