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Bio/Description. A Scottish physicist and mathematician, he was born in Edinburgh, to John Clerk and Frances Cay. His father was a man of comfortable means, of the Clerk family of Penicuik, Midlothian, holders of the baronetcy of Clerk of Penicuik who added the surname Maxwell to his name after he inherited a country estate in Middlebie ...
George's father, his brother John and himself were friends of James Hutton. Family. He married Dorothea Clerk Maxwell of Middlebie. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son John Clerk. He had four other sons and four daughters. He was the great-grandfather of the famous physicist James Clerk Maxwell. References
23 de may. de 2018 · James Clerk Maxwell was born in Edinburgh on June 13, 1831. His father, who was a lawyer, was first named John Clerk but adopted the surname of Maxwell upon his succession to an estate, Glenlair, situated near Dalbeattie. James was a quiet child "much given to reading, drawing pictures, chiefly of animals, and constructing geometric models."
24 de ene. de 2008 · career. There is no question that James Clerk Maxwell deserves recognition 150 years on. Any university that was lucky enough to have Maxwell on its staff would surely. rate him as one of the outstanding professors in its entire history. Marischal College, Aberdeen, was where Maxwell took up his first post.
JAMES CLERK MAXWELL. Obituary by Professor Peter Guthrie Tait , Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 10 1878 -80, 331-339. JAMES CLERK MAXWELL, born in 1831, was the only son of John Clerk Maxwell of Middlebie. His grandfather, Captain James Clerk, was a cadet of the old Scottish family of Clerk of Penicuick, being a younger brother ...
Elizabeth Liddell. Elizabeth Liddell, later Mrs. Robert Hodshon Cay, (22 February 1770 – 1831) was an amateur British artist specialising in pastel portraits. [1] She was wife of Robert Hodshon Cay, mother of John Cay, mother-in-law of John Clerk-Maxwell of Middlebie and grandmother of James Clerk Maxwell .
school could have achieved. John Clerk Maxwell had inherited the residue of the Middlebie estate, approximately 700 ha, in Kirkcudbrightshire, some 7 miles from Castle Douglas. The estate was poor and Maxwell senior built the laird’s Figure 1. Bust of James Clerk Maxwell in ornamental surround located in the picture gallery at
