Nurturing Genius: the Childhood and Youth of Kelvin and Maxwell

Substantia

John Lekner¹ 

[1] The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, and School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, P O Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand;

关键词: William Thomson (Lord Kelvin);    James Clerk Maxwell;    genius;    childhood;    youth;    history of physics;   

DOI  :  10.13128/Substantia-33

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

William Thomson and James Clerk Maxwell, nineteenth century natural philosophers, were friends and colleagues (Thomson was Maxwell’s senior by seven years). This historical note gives a description of their early lives, with emphasis on the influence of their fathers and of Cambridge on their development.

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