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John Clerk (later Clerk Maxwell) of Middlebie FRSE (1790–1856) was a Scottish advocate and father of the mathematical physicist James Clerk Maxwell. Life [ edit ] He was born in Edinburgh on 10 November 1790, the son of Janet Irving and Captain James Clerk.
24 de jan. de 2008 · John Clerk Maxwell had inherited the residue of the Middlebie estate, approximately 700 ha, in Kirkcudbrightshire, some 7 miles from Castle Douglas. The estate was poor and Maxwell senior built the laird's house, known as Glenlair.
- John S Reid, Charles H.-T Wang, Charles H.-T Wang, J. Michael T Thompson
- 2008
16 de ago. de 2016 · ...and the younger son John succeeded to the property of Middlebie, which descended to him from his grandmother, Dorothea, Lady Clerk Maxwell, and took the name of Maxwell. He married in 1826 Frances, daughter of Robert Cay of Charlton, and had one son, James Clerk Maxwell, born in July 1831, and died in Nov. 1879.
- Frances Clerk-Maxwell
- April 3, 1856
He was ranked 91st on the BBC poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. His name is honoured in a number of ways, one of which is the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, the largest submillimetre-wavelength astronomical telescope in the world, with a diameter of 15 metres.
John Clerk Maxwell and Frances now chose to move to their estate at Middlebie and they had a house built for them at Glenlair on the estate. Their son James Clerk Maxwell was born in the house at 14 India Street and he would eventually inherit the house on the death of his father, retaining the house throughout his life.
James Clerk Maxwell (Edimburgo, 13 de junho de 1831 — Cambridge, 5 de novembro de 1879) foi um físico e matemático escocês. É mais conhecido por ter dado forma final à teoria moderna do eletromagnetismo, que une a eletricidade, o magnetismo e a óptica, algo que ficou conhecido como a "segunda grande unificação na física".
name was John Clerk, found himself the inheritor of the remnants of what had once been the magnificent estate of Middlebie and a major holding of the Maxwell family.
