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Who was the greatest contributor to the field of electromagnetic waves?

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The IET Electromagnetics Network had their very first webinar on the 16th June “Electromagnetic Waves: Successfully Surfing the Subject” (now available on demand) which took everyone through a historical perspective and explained how a variety of basic experiments with magnets, electrical currents and electrical circuits gave rise to a series of simple rules defining how electrical and magnetic phenomena behave and how they are fundamentally interlinked.  


Andrew Chugg (the speaker) posed a question to the audience: 
“Who do you think was the greatest contributor to the field of electromagnetic waves?”


The audience favourite? Well that was James Clerk-Maxwell by a landslide!


But did Maxwell really contribute the most? More than Faraday or Einstein?


Who do you think was the greatest contributor to electromagnetics?



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    Probably not the greatest, but high on the list for me..

    Often forgotten is Jagadish Chandra Bose info here  who was proving things about microwave propagation and radio waves from the late 1890s.

    As he did not patent anything, but did a large number of lectures and demonstrations, including in London, it is likely that his work and publications inspired those more commercial European minds to take up the development.
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    Probably not the greatest, but high on the list for me..

    Often forgotten is Jagadish Chandra Bose info here  who was proving things about microwave propagation and radio waves from the late 1890s.

    As he did not patent anything, but did a large number of lectures and demonstrations, including in London, it is likely that his work and publications inspired those more commercial European minds to take up the development.
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