 | The Maxwellians Subjects: Electromagnetic theory -- History; Physics -- Great Britain -- History; Maxwell James Clerk 1831-1879; FitzGerald George Francis 1851-1901; Lodge Oliver Sir 1851-1940; Heaviside Oliver 1850-1925; Physicists -- Great Britain -- Biography; James Clerk Maxwell published the Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism in 1873. At his death, six years later, his theory of the electromagnetic field was neither well understood nor widely accepted. By the mid-1890s, however, it was regarded as one... Bruce J. Hunt is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. |
