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| | Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : James Clerk Maxwell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23) |
 | | James Clerk Maxwell (June 13, 1831–November 5, 1879) was a Scottish mathematical physicist, born in Edinburgh. |
 | | He was the last representative of a younger branch of the well-known Scottish family of Clerk of Penicuik. |
 | | A mountain range on Venus, Maxwell Montes, is named after him, as is the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, the largest sub-mm astronomical telescope in the world, with a diameter of 15 metres. |
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