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Simon Schaffer and Jim Al-Khalili describe the rivalry that James Clerk Maxwell's work led to
Even the mathematician James Clerk Maxwell himself didn't understand the full implications of his theory. He had concluded that light was an electromagnetic wave, but he didn't foresee that it was just one small band of wavelengths within a whole vast spectrum of electromagnetic waves. Prof Simon Schaffer describes why the greatest implications of Maxwell's work would remain undetected for many years, and what rivalry resulted from it.
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