Physics · History & Philosophy of Physics
A topic within History & Philosophy of Physics, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Physics.
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John Tyndall
A colleague's tribute to Faraday's working method, arguing that his experimental persistence rather than mathematical training is what let him discover induction and diamagnetism.
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The first full biography of Maxwell, drawing on his private letters and notebooks to trace how a Scottish landowner's son became the physicist who unified electricity, magnetism and light.
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