Peter Harman
Professor of the History of Science at Lancaster University and editor of The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell
1 episode
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ScienceFellows of the Royal SocietyPeople associated with electricityAlumni of the University of Edinburgh19th-century British physicistsOptical physicistsAlumni of Trinity College, CambridgeColor scientistsAcademics of King's College LondonMagneticiansDeaths from stomach cancer in EnglandCavendish Professors of PhysicsMathematical physicists, British theoretical physicists
Maxwell
Melvyn Bragg discusses the life and work of the often overlooked 19th century Scottish scientist, and his enormous contribution to the creation of the technological age in which we live.
2 October 2003
Also featuring: Simon Schaffer, Joanna Haigh
ScienceFellows of the Royal SocietyPeople associated with electricityAlumni of the University of Edinburgh19th-century British physicistsOptical physicistsAlumni of Trinity College, CambridgeColor scientistsAcademics of King's College LondonMagneticiansDeaths from stomach cancer in EnglandCavendish Professors of PhysicsMathematical physicists, British theoretical physicists