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Iron filings on white paper following the line of a magnetic field - and displaying the vague fuzzy shape of a portrait of James Clerk Maxwell, monochrome, dreamy, a bit noisy with fillings powder
James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
This Scottish physicist and mathematician did something rather extraordinary: he took electricity, magnetism, and light - apparently very different phenomena - and showed that they belonged to the same theory. Four equations later, the universe had become a lot simpler! And light turned out to be... an electromagnetic wave