These equations thoroughly describe electromagnetic phenomena, unifying light, electricity, and magnetism for the first time as the same phenomenon with different manifestations. The equations were devised in 1865 by Scottish mathematician and scientist James Clerk Maxwell, and they summarize the works of numerous scientists who preceded him, including Ampere, Gauss, Sturgeon, Henry, Faraday, Ohm, and Coulomb, among others.
Maxwell’s equations are considered to be the second point of great unification in physics (the first was the creation of Newtonian physics). Thanks to these equations, the subsequent works of Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, and Thomas Alva Edison were possible.