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List of things named after James Clerk Maxwell

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This is a list of things named for James Clerk Maxwell.

Science

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Electromagnetism

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Thermodynamics and kinetic theory

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Solid mechanics

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Astronomy

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Optics

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  • Maxwellian view, a method of illuminating the eye by focusing an image at the plane of the pupil.[4]

Neuroscience

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  • Maxwell's Spot, a reddish spot seen in the centre of a visual field when a white surface is viewed through a dichroic filter transmitting red and blue lights. In 1856, Maxwell observed a dark spot in the blue region of a prismatic spectrum.[5] The spot moved with his eye but disappeared upon looking elsewhere in the spectrum. He concluded that the spot is an phenomenon produced in the eye (an entoptic phenomenon) by a localized absorption of blue light by the yellow pigment of the central region of the retina (the macula leutea). Maxwell also proposed that the spot appeared as the cross of fuzzy bow-tie shapes (Haidinger's brushes), one blue, the other yellow, when the light is polarized, discovered by Austrian physicist Wilhelm Karl von Haidinger in 1844.

Prizes

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Others

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The James Clerk Maxwell Monument in Edinburgh, by Alexander Stoddart. Commissioned by The Royal Society of Edinburgh; unveiled in 2008.

See also

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ A Dictionary of Scientific Units: Including dimensionless numbers and scales. Springer. 2012-12-06. ISBN 9789400941113. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  2. ^ "The Magellan Venus Explorer's Guide, Chapter 8, What's in a Name?". JPL/NASA. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  3. ^ "PIA09857: Maxwell's Namesake". JPL/NASA. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
  4. ^ Leibowitz, Herschel (1954). "The Use and Calibration of the 'Maxwellian View' in Visual Instrumentation". The American Journal of Psychology. 67 (3): 530–532. doi:10.2307/1417947. JSTOR 1417947. PMID 13207449.
  5. ^ Maxwell, J. C. (1857). On the unequal sensibility of the Foramen Centrale to light of different colours. In J. P. Gassiot (Ed.), Report of the twenty-sixth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science held at Cheltenham in August 1856: Notices and abstracts of miscellaneous communications to the sections (pp. 12). John Murrary, Albemarle Street. https://archive.org/details/reportofbritisha56brit/page/n553/
  6. ^ James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics, accessed 15 Nov 2013.
  7. ^ IEEE/RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award, accessed 26 Nov 2013.
  8. ^ "James Clerk Maxwell Medal and Prize". Institute of Physics. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
  9. ^ "The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope" (PDF). James Clerk Maxwell Foundation. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  10. ^ "James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)". University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
  11. ^ "James Clerk Maxwell". King's College London. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
  12. ^ "'Dafty' genius honoured at last by his alma mater". The Scotsman. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  13. ^ "Maxwell Centre". University of Cambridge. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  14. ^ "AnandTech | the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti and GTX 750 Review: Maxwell Makes Its Move". www.anandtech.com. Archived from the original on 18 February 2014. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  15. ^ Rinaldi, Giancarlo (25 November 2008). "The science world's unsung hero?". BBC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2008. Retrieved 27 March 2013.