The Man who Changed Everything by Basil Mahon

A book about James Clerk Maxwell, one of the most brilliant physicists of all time. Maxwell unified electricity and magnetism and mathematically proved the electromagnetic spectrum, making radio and broadcasting possible and predicting radiation of all types. He applied field equations, was an early topologist, proved that light was an electromagnetic phenomenon. Quantitatively measured colors. Measured the color vision of the eye. Took the first color picture. Started the Cavendish lab. His equations were the basis for relativity and quantum mechanics. He introduced statistical methods to physics. He was a devout Christian and a kind and humor-loving man. Married, he had no children.