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Title: James Clerk Maxwell
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 30, 2015, 08:05:22 PM
Number of programmes being done on Clerk Maxwell on TV and radio


http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06rd56j
Title: Re: James Clark Maxwell
Post by: Outrider on November 30, 2015, 09:50:14 PM
Excellent! I wonder if they take requests... I'd love to see some more on Hooke, too.

O.
Title: Re: James Clark Maxwell
Post by: SusanDoris on December 01, 2015, 05:56:07 AM
A few years ago  I read (talking book) an excellent biography about James Clerk-Maxwell. What an amazing mind he had.
Title: Re: James Clerk Maxwell
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on December 01, 2015, 06:53:08 AM
He has a mountain named after him:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell_Montes
Title: Re: James Clerk Maxwell
Post by: Gonnagle on December 01, 2015, 12:40:00 PM
Dear Sane,

Why did you edit your OP, who were Einstein's heroes.

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/einsteins-heroes-9780195308907?cc=gb&lang=en&

One for the basket. ;)

Gonnagle.
Title: Re: James Clerk Maxwell
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 01, 2015, 01:11:46 PM
Quote from: Gonnagle on December 01, 2015, 12:40:00 PM
Dear Sane,

Why did you edit your OP, who were Einstein's heroes.

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/einsteins-heroes-9780195308907?cc=gb&lang=en&

One for the basket. ;)

Gonnagle.

Edited because predictive text had Clark in title rather than Clerk
Title: Re: James Clerk Maxwell
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 08, 2018, 09:00:46 AM
Just to note the programme in JCM is back on iPlayer



https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06rd56j/scotlands-einstein-james-clerk-maxwell-the-man-who-changed-the-world
Title: Re: James Clerk Maxwell
Post by: Dicky Underpants on August 10, 2018, 03:35:37 PM
Quote from: Nearly Sane on November 30, 2015, 08:05:22 PM
Number of programmes being done on Clerk Maxwell on TV and radio


http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06rd56j

Jolly good. I'll look out for those. You've already prompted me to start reading a crisp, blue paperback which has been lurking on my shelves for a little while: The Man Who Changed Everything, by Basil Mahon.
Title: Re: James Clerk Maxwell
Post by: SusanDoris on August 10, 2018, 06:33:46 PM
Quote from: Dicky Underpants on August 10, 2018, 03:35:37 PM
Jolly good. I'll look out for those. You've already prompted me to start reading a crisp, blue paperback which has been lurking on my shelves for a little while: The Man Who Changed Everything, by Basil Mahon.
I had that as an audio book not too long ago. Un-put-down-able. what a genius.