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• Davies, Sir Peter Maxwell
  1. (1934-) a British COMPOSER of modern CLASSICAL music. His works include the OPERA s Taverner (1972), The Martyrdom of St Magnus (1977), The Lighthouse (1980), and Resurrection (1987).
• James Clerk Maxwell (noun)
  1. 1831-1879 scottish physicist whose equations unified electricity and magnetism and who recognized the electromagnetic nature of light
• Maxwell Anderson (noun)
  1. 1888-1959 united States dramatist
• Maxwell's demon (noun)
  1. an imaginary creature that controls a small hole in a partition that divides a chamber filled with gas into two parts and allows fast molecules to move in one direction and slow molecules to move in the other direction through the hole; this would result in one part of the container becoming warmer and the other cooler, thus decreasing entropy and violating the second law of thermodynamics
• Maxwell's equations (noun)
  1. four differential equations that summarize classical properties of electromagnetic fields
• Maxwell, James Clerk
  1. (1831-79) a British scientist who made important discoveries in ELECTROMAGNETISM, which made possible the development of radio and telephones
• Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution law (noun)
  1. physics a law expressing the distribution of energy among the molecules of a gas in thermal equilibrium
• William Maxwell Aitken (noun)
  1. 1879-1964 born in Canada british newspaper publisher and politician ; confidant of Winston Churchill
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