期刊论文详细信息
Substantia | |
Nurturing Genius: the Childhood and Youth of Kelvin and Maxwell | |
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.
【 授权许可】
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