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    Professor Maxwell's Duplicitous Demon: The Life and Science of James Clerk Maxwell
    Professor Maxwell's Duplicitous Demon: The Life and Science of James Clerk Maxwell
    Professor Maxwell's Duplicitous Demon: The Life and Science of James Clerk Maxwell
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    Professor Maxwell's Duplicitous Demon: The Life and Science of James Clerk Maxwell

    Written by Brian Clegg

    Narrated by Simon Mattacks

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    Asked to name a great physicist, most people would mention Newton or Einstein, Feynman or Hawking. But ask a physicist and there’s no doubt that James Clerk Maxwell will be near the top of the list.

    Maxwell, an unassuming Victorian Scotsman, explained how we perceive colour. He uncovered the way gases behave. And, most significantly, he transformed the way physics was undertaken in his explanation of the interaction of electricity and magnetism, revealing the nature of light and laying the groundwork for everything from Einstein’s special relativity to modern electronics.

    Along the way, he set up one of the most enduring challenges in physics, one that has taxed the best minds ever since. ‘Maxwell’s demon’ is a tiny but thoroughly disruptive thought experiment that suggests the second law of thermodynamics, the law that governs the flow of time itself, can be broken. This is the story of a groundbreaking scientist, a great contributor to our understanding of the way the world works, and his duplicitous demon.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMay 14, 2019
    ISBN9781721386635
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    Brian Clegg

    BRIAN CLEGG is the author of Ten Billion Tomorrows, Final Frontier, Extra Sensory, Gravity, How to Build a Time Machine, Armageddon Science, Before the Big Bang, Upgrade Me, and The God Effect among others. He holds a physics degree from Cambridge and has written regular columns, features, and reviews for numerous magazines. He lives in Wiltshire, England, with his wife and two children.

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      A fantastic book about a truly underrated modern mind. Thoroughly recommended. The reading was brilliant as well. This covers the life and works of Maxwell, and also manages to create I feel and a picture of the times in which he lived.