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James Clerk Maxwell - Happy Birthday! (en.wikipedia.org)
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The physicist and mathematician who demonstrated that electric and magnetic fields travel through space as waves moving at the speed of light. He proposed that light is an undulation in the same medium that is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena. The unification of light and electrical phenomena led to his prediction of the existence of radio waves.

We wouldn't be here without his curiosity.

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