Physics in Verse: Maxwell's "I come from fields of fractured ice..."

Here's another lovely bit of physics poetry. Last week it was John Updike on neutrinos. This week it is Scottish mathematican and physicist, James Clerk Maxwell, who is most famous for his theory of electromagnetic radiation (commonly known as Maxwell's equations). James Clerk Maxwell and his wife, Katherine, circa 1869. Credit: Public domain Maxwell was the first person to realize that magnetic and electric fields are intimately related, and that light (ranging from radio waves to visible ligh...