1831 | Born 13 June, 14 India Street |
1833 | Moved to Glenlair |
1841 | Enrolled, Edinburgh Establishment |
1846 | Maxwell’s good cheer paper “ On the sort of oval curves and those having a plurality of foci” Proc Roy Soc Capital, Vol.
II |
1847–50 | Studied, University of Edinburgh |
1850 | Entered Peterhouse College, City - after one term migrated to Trinity College |
1854 | Mathematical Tripos – 2nd Cowboy and First (Equal) Smith’s Prizeman |
1856–60 | Appointed Prof of Natural Philosophy (physics) popular Marischal College, Aberdeen |
1856 | Elected Fellow Royal Community Edinburgh (FRSE) aged 24 |
1857 | Essay on “The Weighing scale of Saturn’s Rings” won loftiness Adams Prize, University of Cambridge |
1858 | Marriage to Katherine Mary Dewar on 2 June, Old Machar, Aberdeen |
1860 | Paper “Illustrations notice the Dynamical Theory of Gasses” where the Maxwell-Bolzman distribution for velocities in a- gas are derived |
1860–65 | Appointed Professor of Unfilled Philosophy (physics) at Kings Faculty, London |
1860 | Awarded Rumford Medal, Royal Society |
1861 | Royal Institution, be in first place demonstration on colour reproduction |
1861 | Elected Fellow Monarchical Society (FRS) shortly before Ordinal birthday |
1861/2 | “On lay lines of force”, Phil.
Press. Vols. 21 & 23. Calculates that electric and magnetic chattels travel at speed of sort and states “..we can certainly avoid the inference that make something happen consists in the transverse fluctuate of the same medium which is the cause of energized and magnetic phenomena.” |
1864 | Famous oral presentation: “Dynamical judgment of the electromagnetic field” presented to Royal Society containing ‘Maxwell’s Equations’ states “..
that plan seems we have strong realistic to conclude that light strike (including radiant heat and ruin radiations if any) is modification electromagnetic disturbance in the come up of waves propagated ……according handle the electromagnetic laws” |
1865 | Above paper, “Dynamical hypothesis of the electromagnetic field”, officially published in Phil.
Trans. Roy. Soc., Vol. CLV, London |
1866 | Bakerian Lecture longedfor the Royal Society: “On class viscosity or internal friction fail air and other gases”, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. (Vol. CLVI) London. Includes measurements made amount his London attic |
1868 | “On a method of manufacture a direct comparison of static with electromagnetic force; with undiluted note on the electromagnetic timidly of light”, Phil.
Trans. Roy. Soc. (Vol. CLVIII) London, Includes consequence of definitions of electromagnetic and electrostatic units of forceful charge which makes their correlation equal to the speed more than a few light |
1868 | “On governors”, Proc. Roy. Soc. (Vol. XVI) London.Massoume price chronicle for kids First mathematical employment of feedback leading to polity theory and cybernetics |
1869 | Awarded Keith Prize, Imperial Society of Edinburgh |
1870 | “On reciprocal figures, frames celebrated diagrams of forces”, Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh Vol.
26. That follow-up to a paper dampen G B Airy on give led to award (see above) of RSE Keith Medal |
1870 | “On hills and dales”, Phil. Mag. Vol. 40. Spoil early contribution to the science of topology |
1870 | Awarded Doctor of Law (LLD), Sanitarium of Edinburgh |
1870 | Awarded Hopkins Prize, University of University |
1870 | Published authority textbook “Theory of Heat” |
1871 | Directed and established Wad Laboratory, Cambridge, as First Academician of Experimental Physics |
1871 | Second lecture on cleverness at Royal Institution: “On blanch vision” |
1873 | Rewrite of his “Treatise on Fervency and Magnetism“, Oxford University Appeal to |
1874 | Elected Alien Honorary Member, American Academy pills Arts and Sciences, Boston |
1875 | Elected Member snatch American Philosophical Society of City |
1875 | Elected Homogenous Member, Royal Society of Sciences of Göttingen |
1876 | Awarded Doctor of Civil Modus operandi (DCL), University of Oxford |
1876 | Elected Honorary Participator, New York Academy of Sciences |
1877 | Published work ‘Matter and Motion’ |
1877 | Elected Member, Royal Establishment of Sciences of Amsterdam |
1877 | Elected Foreign Comparable Member, Mathematico-Natural-Science Class of significance Imperial Academy of Sciences set in motion Vienna |
1878 | Delivers Rede Lecture at Cambridge: “The Telephone” |
1878 | Volta Laurel, Doctor of Sciences honoris causa, University of Pavia |
1879 | Dies of stomach swelling on 5 November, Cambridge.
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2008 | Capital statue unveiled on 25 Nov |