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Katherine Mary Clerk Maxwell | |
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| Born | Katherine Mary Dewar 1824 Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland |
| Died | 12 December 1886 (aged 61–62) Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England |
| Resting place | Parton, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland |
| Known for | Research supporting experiments of James Clerk Maxwell |
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James Clerk Maxwell
(m. 1858; died 1879) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physical sciences |
Katherine Mary Clerk Maxwell (née Dewar; 1824 – 12 December 1886) was the wife of Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell. She aided him in some of his work on colour vision and his experiments on the viscosity of gases. She was born Katherine Dewar in 1824 in Glasgow[1][2] and married Clerk Maxwell in Aberdeen in 1858.[3][4]
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