The Planetarium presents Faraday and Maxwell
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Alexandria, 21 December 2004–
The Planetarium Science Center (PSC) at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina presents a lecture on the Era of Faraday and Maxwell, 22 December 2004. The lecture will be presented by astronomer Omar Fekry, as part of a series of lectures on famous scientific figures.
English chemist and physicist, Michael Faraday (1791-1867), is known for his pioneering experiments in electricity and magnetism. Many consider him the greatest experimentalist who ever lived. He derived several concepts directly from experiments, such as lines of magnetic force, which have become common ideas in modern physics.
James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish mathematician and physicist who published physical and mathematical theories of the electromagnetic field, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he enjoyed a country upbringing. Maxwell"s formulation of electricity and magnetism was published in A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (1873), which included the formulas today known as the ‘Maxwell Equations’. Maxwell made numerous other contributions to the advancement of science. He argued that the rings of planet Saturn were small individual particles, performed experiments which showed the viscosity varied directly with temperature, derived the ‘Equipartition theorem’, and tried to describe spectral lines using a vibrational model.
The lecture will begin at 12:00 pm at the Auditorium in the Main Library.
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