Dad at heart, and happy to be that way, but would be useful to have normality or a helper from time to time.😍🙂😡😵💫
A scientist, mathematician and genius in physics in the 1800's who transformed our understanding of light, electricity and magnetism which powers the world of the 21st century.
He predicted that Saturn, that at the time was just a blob in the sky. Showing through mathematics that the disc that surrounded the planet was made up of tiny pebble like rocks orbiting the planet. This would later be photographed by Voyager and Cassini missions centuries later showing the pebble like rings that surrounded saturn in all their detail and beauty.
He transformed our understanding of the electromagnetic spectrum of the universe that we inhabit today. That it was not just made up of light. That magnetic waves and electrical waves and light waves were all operating in the same space. That light did not just occupy the visible but beyond the visible. That it could be measured by instruments and could be used to transport signals around the world and beyond at just under 300,000,000 metres a second. (the speed of light).
He produced the very first colour image showing how all you needed was three colours when combined at varying intensities could produce all the colours of the rainbow and beyond. His work on colour was done with the help of his wife Katherine Clerk Maxwell.
Why is he not quite as popular as say Einstein or Newton? Well his equations are bit complicated.
There were many Robert Louis Stevenson's in the 19th century but the one being referenced here is the writer of such hits as Kidnapped, Treasure Island and many others. Including many poems.
Born on the 13th of November in 1850 in Edinburgh.
He had an illness early on in life which affected him throughout his life. Whether this was down to the industrial Victorian world in which he lived would be speculation on my part. He was diagnosed with a lung condition. Tuberculosis was the possible diagnosis at the time but modern medical people argue that it may have been something else.