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Maxwell Foundation Newsletter Archive

Issue No.19 Winter 2023

• Dark matter: a cosmic ghost story

Issue No.18 Summer 2022

• An introduction to black holes

Issue No.17 Summer 2022

• Some advances in Pure Mathematics made in the 19th century

Issue No.16 Part Two Spring 2022

• Homage to Heinrich Hertz (Part 2)

Issue No.16 Part One Summer 2021

• Homage to Heinrich Hertz (Part 1)

Issue No.15 Winter 2020

• New electromagnetic surface waves: Voigt surface waves
• Tribute to Professor David S.Ritchie

Issue No.14 Spring 2020

• Maxwell's contribution to standardising the unit of electrical resistance

Issue No.13 Summer 2019

• Saturn's Rings after Cassini
• Visit to Einstein's House

Issue No.12 Spring 2019

• Electroweak Thoughts
• Visit to CERN

Issue No.11 Summer 2018

• Wireless Advances using Visible Light (LiFi)

Issue No.10 Spring 2018

• The Discovery of Gravitational Waves
• Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780-1872), the woman who checkmated James Clerk Maxwell

Issue No.9 Autumn 2017

• Clerk Maxwell and the complex behaviour of an object released from rest in a fluid
• Maxwell on Physical Standards

Issue No.8 Spring 2017

• Some Reflections on the History of Radar from its Invention up to the Second World War

Issue No.7 Autumn 2016

• Maxwell's Equations: the Tip of an Iceberg
• Maxwell and Control Theory

Issue No.6 Winter 2015

• Maxwell's Articles on Structural Mechanics

Issue No.5 Spring 2015

• Maxwell and the Rings of Saturn
• William Dyce Cay (1838-1925), Civil Engineer - James Clerk Maxwell's mathematical cousin
• Book Review: Faraday,Maxwell and the Electromagnetic Field

Issue No.4 Spring 2014

• From Maxwell to Higgs
• Professor Sydney Ross, BSc, PhD, Hon.DSc, CorrFRSE (6/7/1915 – 4/12/2013)

Issue No.3 Spring 2013

• The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
• Maxwell's Demon
• Maxwell and the Distribution of Molecular Velocities

Issue No.2 Autumn 2012

• The Changing Notation of Maxwell's Equations

Issue No.1 Spring 2012

• Is the Cosmos teeming with life or is life on Earth unique?
• Maxwell, Einstein, Newton and Faraday
• The Tartan Ribbon and Colour Photography