His first paper was on a new way of constructing a perfect oval, and his early work included the discovery of the fish-eye lens and a proof that all colors can be matched by mixtures of three spectral stimuli. His work on Saturn's rings, which disproved Laplace's belief that
His first paper was on a new way of constructing a perfect oval, and his early work included the discovery of the fish-eye lens and a proof that all colors can be matched by mixtures of three spectral stimuli. His work on Saturn's rings, which disproved Laplace's belief that there was one solid ring, led to his kinetic theory of gases, a statistical theory of distribution which tied in with Boltzmann's work on the same subject. FTP, identify this British physicist, whose Theory of Heat introduced a being which was able to operate valves without doing work, the sorting demon named for him.
His first paper was on a new way of constructing a perfect oval, and his early work included the discovery of the fish-eye lens and a proof that all colors can be matched by mixtures of three spectral stimuli.
James Clerk {Maxwell}