Albert Einstein shook up physics by proposing that light wasn’t just a wave, but it could also behave like a collection of ...

James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) was the Einstein and the Newton of 19th century science. Maxwell's name is well known by every modern physicist and physics student. Maxwell's equations provide the ...

In a new study published in Physical Review Letters, scientists have discovered a novel approach to detecting the quantum ...

Central to this debate is the paradox of “Maxwell’s Demon,” a thought experiment proposed by physicist James Clerk Maxwell in 1867,” the study authors note. According to the second law of ...

Light was long considered to be a wave, exhibiting the phenomenon of interference in which ripples like those in water waves ...

The intersection of quantum theory and thermodynamics has long intrigued and puzzled researchers. The Second Law of ...

Central to this debate is the paradox of "Maxwell's Demon," a thought experiment proposed by physicist James Clerk Maxwell in 1867. Maxwell envisioned a hypothetical being -- the demon -- capable ...

Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell may not be very well known, but lots of the technology we use today depends on his ideas. Maxwell invented colour photography (1861). He took photos using ...

In 1830, English physicist Michael Faraday confirmed Oersted's theory, and established the principle of electromagnetic induction. In 1864, James Clerk Maxwell, an experimental physics ...

Its origins stretched back half a century. In the 1860s, the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell succeeded in melding electricity and magnetism into one unified theory of electromagnetism.