James Clerk Maxwell

It's likely there will

always be debate over who is the father of radio, but there is very little doubt about its grandfather, Scottish physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell.

Maxwell's theory of electromagnetic radiation laid the foundation for all modern electronic communication techniques, yet the average person knows little or nothing about him.

The community where he is buried hopes to change that, as does the James Clerk Maxwell Radio Society, MM0PMS.

Maxwell died in 1879 and is buried at the Kirk, or church, in Parton, Scotland.

The Church of Scotland is trying to consolidate its properties and has put Parton Kirk up for sale.

The community has been given priority to purchase the building, but has a November 1st deadline to raise the roughly US$95,000 needed to do so.

According to James Clerk Maxwell Radio Society co-founder Richard Hopkins, MM1BHO, the town has what he calls an ambitious vision to preserve the Kirk and develop it as a James Clerk Maxwell Science and Community Center, celebrating his life and scientific legacy while providing a valuable facility for the local community.

He had said that light is effectively a particle, and another school of thought is saying light is a wave.

Now, 200 years go by, and around 1875 you have James Clerk Maxwell, one of the most brilliant scientists of all time- Yeah ... who definitively shows that light is a wave and that electromagnetic waves travel at the speed of light.

So Maxwell was able to show that light is a narrow band of electromagnetic radiation.

So problem solved.

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Already before the war, Einstein had immense fame among physicists and among all who are interested in the philosophy of science because of his principle of relativity.

Clark Maxwell had shown that light is electromagnetic and had reduced the whole theory of electromagnetism to a small number of equations, which are fundamental in all subsequent work.

but these equations were entangled with the hypothesis of the ether, and with the notion of motion relative to the ether.

Since the ether was supposed to be at rest, such motion was indistinguishable from absolute motion.