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Born and brought up in Kirkcudbrightshire, south-western Scotland, Maxwell was educated at Edinburgh and Cambridge universities and then held the Chair of Natural Philosophy at Marischal College, Aberdeen, from 1856. His was one of a series of daring and inspired appointments of young scientists by King’s in the 19th century, also including Charles Lyell in geology, John Frederic Daniell in chemistry, Charles Wheatstone in physics and Joseph Liste

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