SCIENCE STAR- JAMES CLERK MAXWELL

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Hi, Science Stars, I'm job at Boots and welcome to
Science Star Kids only on I Read to Know, iHeartRadio.
Today we're going to learn about a very important scientist,
James Clerk Maxwell. James Clerk Maxwell is one of the
most important scientists of all time. Albert Einstein recognized that

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the beginnings of the special theory of relativity were down
to Clerk Maxwell's theories. Einstein said, the work of James
Clerk Maxwell changed the world forever. Clerk Maxwell's research into
electromagnetic radiation brought about many of the things we know today,
like television, mobile phones, radios, and infrared telescopes. The largest

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astronomical telescope in the world, at moun Akiah Observatory in Hawaii,
is named in his honor. James Clerk Maxwell was certainly
no ordinary child considering what he achieved. He was born
in Edinburgh in eighteen thirty one. He attended school in
the city and later studied at the Universities of Edinburgh

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and Cambridge. He was a very curious child, and this
might have amaze you, but he wrote his first scientific
paper at the age of just fourteen. Wow. At the
age of twenty five he became professor of physics at
Aberdeen University's Marshall College. That's extremely young to be a professor.

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He was obviously one very clever man. Indeed, in Aberdeen
he began to study the arrangement of all Saturn's rings.
For years and years, no one, including scientists, could understand
why the rings just didn't break up, crash into the
planet or move away from it. Well, there there was
one person who found the answer. Of course. He spent

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two years researching and studying the rings and then wrote
a very detailed essay that was called on the Stability
of Saturn's Rings in eighteen fifty nine. After all this research,
Key came to the decision that the rings were made
up of lots and lots of small solid particles. In
eighteen sixty he moved from Aberdeen to King's College in

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London and he stayed there until eighteen sixty five. In
eighteen seventy one he was asked to go back to Cambridge,
and off he went. He was a very important person
when it came to establishing and designing the now famous
Cavendish Laboratory. He became the first Cavendish Professor of Physics.
The laboratory was officially opened in eighteen seventy four. Being

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the curious person that he was, he carried on plenty
of research in lots of different fields, including astronomy and
mathematical physics. In eighteen seventy three he created the very
fame as four Maxwell equations. They were very complicated and
you would have to be a scientist to figure them out.
But these four theories played a very important role in

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Albert Einstein's work on the special theory of relativity. Einstein
praised him and said the special theory of relativity owes
its origins to Maxwell equations of the electromagnetic field. The
discovery of the way electromagnetic waves form were the very
beginning of a lot of technology that we know today

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and take for granted, sometimes radio, television, satellite communications, and
the mobile phone all come from some of his work.
Isn't that amazing? It was said that the most significant
event in the nineteenth century was Maxwell's discovery of the
laws of electro dynamics. He was so good at science,

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in fact, he was a genius, and because of this,
the largest astronomical telescope in the world was named after
him in nineteen eighty seven. Wow, he must have made
one huge impact on the world of science. It is
of course called the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope or j
c MT. It is forty nine feet fifteen meters in

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diameter and is situated at Mounikea Observatory in Hawaii and
is at a height of thirteen thousand, four hundred twenty
five feet or four thousand, ninety two meters. The JCMT
is used to study our Solar System, distant galaxies, and
interstellar dust and gas. The Voyager space probes of the

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nineteen eighties proved many of the conclusions that Clerk Maxwell
had made over a century before. James Clerk Maxwell died
in Cambridge on the fifth of November. As you can see,
James Clerk Maxwell was a genius and added so much
to the world. Here are some words you need to know.
Electromagnetic radiation electromagnetic radiation, e M radiation or e MR

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is a form of radiant energy released by certain electromagnetic processes.
Visible light is one type of electromagnetic radiation. Other forms
are invisible electromagnetic radiations, such as X rays and radio waves.
Now go and share your knowledge, science stars. The world

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of science is full of wonder and discovery. This is
Joe Beth Boots, your Science Star Kids Reporter, bringing you exciting,
fun science facts on I Read to Know, iHeartRadio. I
Read to Know makes your brain grown.

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