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The 94 pages that link to James Clerk Maxwell, each with the reason it gives.

• Maxwell's equationsRelated: He assembled the electromagnetic laws and introduced the displacement-current term.

• Statistical mechanicsRelated: His molecular speed distribution made statistical descriptions of gases mathematically precise.

• Electric chargeRelated: His theory placed charge within a unified mathematical account of electromagnetic phenomena.

• ElectromagnetismRelated: Maxwell’s synthesis predicted electromagnetic waves and completed the classical field framework.

• Radiation pressureRelated: Maxwell derived radiation pressure from electromagnetic field theory.

• Michael FaradayRelated: Maxwell translated Faraday’s physical ideas about fields into mathematical equations.

• Second law of thermodynamicsRelated: His imagined demon exposed questions about whether microscopic agents could challenge entropy increase.

• MetamerismRelated: His 1850s matching experiments put metamerism on quantitative footing.

• Kinetic theory of gasesRelated: His speed distribution made the theory quantitatively statistical.

• RGB color modelRelated: His experiments demonstrated color image reproduction using three separate color records.

• Virial theoremRelated: Maxwell’s work helped establish the statistical framework in which virial averages became useful.

• Faraday's law of inductionRelated: He recast Faraday's induction principle as a local field equation.

• Ludwig BoltzmannRelated: Maxwell’s gas-velocity distribution preceded and strongly influenced Boltzmann’s statistical treatment.

• Boltzmann distributionRelated: His molecular velocity law preceded Boltzmann's broader equilibrium framework.

• Electromagnetic fieldRelated: His theory showed that electromagnetic disturbances propagate at the speed of light.

• Hendrik LorentzRelated: Maxwell’s field theory supplied the foundation Lorentz extended into an electron-based account.

• OpticsRelated: His theory identified light as an electromagnetic wave.

• University of EdinburghRelated: Maxwell studied at Edinburgh before continuing his education at Cambridge.

• Cavendish LaboratoryRelated: As the laboratory’s first director, he established its research and teaching culture.

• Gustav KirchhoffRelated: Maxwell later developed electromagnetic theory that supplied a deeper framework for Kirchhoff’s circuit and optical work.

• RadioRelated: Maxwell’s theory supplied the foundation for waves later used in radio communication.

• Heinrich HertzRelated: Maxwell’s theory predicted the electromagnetic waves Hertz set out to test.

• Wireless telegraphyRelated: His theory supplied the foundation for transmitting messages by electromagnetic waves.

• Maxwell–Boltzmann distributionRelated: Maxwell derived the molecular velocity distribution for gases in 1860.

• John TyndallRelated: Maxwell succeeded Tyndall as professor of natural philosophy at the Royal Institution.

• HertzRelated: Maxwell predicted electromagnetic waves that Hertz later detected experimentally.

• TrichromacyRelated: Maxwell's mixing experiments gave trichromacy its first quantitative demonstration.

• William Rowan HamiltonRelated: Maxwell drew on Hamilton’s mathematical physics and discussed quaternions in his work.

• Boltzmann equationRelated: His molecular-distribution work supplied essential foundations for Boltzmann’s kinetic approach.

• Color matching (trichromacy)Related: Turned trichromacy from theory into measured color-matching functions.

• Ampère's circuital lawRelated: He added displacement current to the law and incorporated it into Maxwell’s equations.

• André-Marie AmpèreRelated: Maxwell later recast Ampère’s findings within a broader mathematical theory of electromagnetic fields.

• Color photographyRelated: His three-filter demonstration in 1861 is widely regarded as the first color photograph.

• MagnetismRelated: His equations completed the classical account of magnetic fields and electromagnetic waves.

• Faraday effectRelated: Maxwell recognized Faraday’s optical result as evidence connecting light and electromagnetism.

• Hans Christian ØrstedRelated: Maxwell’s theory brought the line of inquiry opened by Ørsted into a unified framework.

• Oliver HeavisideRelated: Heaviside reorganized Maxwell’s electromagnetic theory into a more usable mathematical form.

• PhysicsRelated: His theory showed that light is an electromagnetic wave.

• Henry CavendishRelated: Maxwell later examined Cavendish’s unpublished electrical experiments and brought them to wider attention.

• MagnetostaticsRelated: His equations place magnetostatic laws within a unified field theory.

• Maxwell–Boltzmann statisticsRelated: His molecular-speed distribution was an early form of classical statistical description.

• Nebular hypothesisRelated: Maxwell's analysis challenged the stability of the rings in Laplace's model.

• Action at a distanceRelated: Maxwell’s theory made electromagnetic influence propagate through a field at finite speed.

• Classical electromagnetismRelated: Maxwell synthesized earlier laws and introduced the displacement-current term.

• Josiah Willard GibbsRelated: Maxwell recognized and publicized the significance of Gibbs’s thermodynamic work.

• Classical field theoryRelated: His equations became a landmark example of a unified classical field theory.

• Color matchingRelated: His color triangle and mixture experiments helped formalize color matching.

• ElectrodynamicsRelated: Maxwell synthesized field laws into a unified dynamical theory.

• Electromagnetic field tensorRelated: His field equations supplied the electromagnetic theory later written in tensor form.

• Electrostatic forceRelated: His theory placed electrostatic force within the broader framework of electromagnetism.