Amongst those giants was another of my scientific heroes: James Clerk Maxwell. 19 Maxwell was fascinated by light...which in 1861 led to him inventing color photography.

世纪中期 我的另一位科学偶像 他就是詹姆斯·克拉克·麦克斯韦麦克斯韦对光非常痴迷 在1861年 让他发明了彩色照相术。

The story of James Clerk Maxwell is a testament to how the curiosity-driven pursuit of fundamental understanding can have far-reaching impacts beyond what one can initially imagine.

詹姆斯·克拉克·麦克斯韦的故事证明了好奇心驱动的对基本理解的追求如何产生超出人们最初想象的深远影响。

James Clerk Maxwell, a Scottish physicist and mathematician born in 1831, significantly influenced the course of physics by providing a unified framework that linked electricity and magnetism—two forces once considered separate.

詹姆斯·克拉克·麦克斯韦 (James Clerk Maxwell) 是一位出生于 1831 年的苏格兰物理学家和数学家，他提供了一个将电和磁（这两种力曾经被认为是独立的力）联系起来的统一框架，对物理学的进程产生了重大影响。

James Clerk Maxwell was discovering some important things about light: It travels in a wave-like manner at exactly one speed.

--James Clerk Maxwell 正在发现一些关于光的重要事情：它以一种波浪状的方式以完全相同的速度传播。

Perhaps most importantly of all, James Clerk Maxwell, who is also considered to have brought about the second great unification of Physics (the first being accredited to Newton) with his classical electromagnetic theory.

这三位是现代历史中最著名的理论数学家。也许最重要的还有詹姆士麦克斯韦，他的经典电磁理论通常被认为带来了物理学的第二次大一统（第一次是牛顿）。

Well, back in 1859, Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell used statistical analysis to figure out the distribution of speeds in an ideal gas.

1859 年，苏格兰物理学家詹姆斯 Maxwell 进行了统计分析以找出分布。

This sought to reconcile an equation which the Scottish mathematician and scientist, James Clerk Maxwell, had devised in the early 1860s regarding electricity and magnetism.

该项目旨在调和苏格兰数学家兼科学家詹姆斯·克拉克·麦克斯韦 (James Clerk Maxwell) 在 1860 年代初设计的关于电和磁的方程。

It was a Physicist called James Clerk Maxwell who discovered that these are two aspects of the same thing and derived the wonderfully elegant rules of electromagnetism and theorized that light was an electromagnetic wave.

一位名叫詹姆斯克拉克麦克斯韦的物理学家发现了这是同一事物的两个方面，并推导出极其优雅的电磁学规则，并提出光是一种电磁波的理论。

A proper theory of the propagation of light didn't come until 1865, when the British physicist James Clerk Maxwell succeeded in unifying the partial theories that up to then had been used to describe the forces of electricity and magnetism.

直到 1865 年，英国物理学家詹姆斯·克拉克·麦克斯韦 (James Clerk Maxwell) 才成功地统一了当时用于描述电力和磁力的部分理论，才出现了正确的光传播理论。