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James Clerk Maxwell
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Maxwell, James Clerk (1831-1879), British physicist, best known for his work on the connection between light and electromagnetic waves (traveling waves of energy). Maxwell discovered that light consists of electromagnetic waves (see Electromagnetic Radiation) and established the kinetic theory of g ....
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.... spun disks painted with sectors of red, green, and blue to mix those primary colors into other colors. He confirmed Young's theory that the eye has three kinds of receptors sensitive to the primary colors and showed that color blindness is due to defects in the receptors. He also fully explained how the addition and subtraction of primary colors produces all other colors. He crowned this achievement in 1861 by producing the first color photograph. Maxwell took this picture, the ancestor of all .... |
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