This is interesting—after his death, someone found a prayer in the journal of James Clerk Maxwell (physics, not coffee), showing that man’s creation in God’s image and Genesis 1:28 were great motivators for his life as a scientist.
James Clerk Maxwell’s name is often placed at number 3 for greatest physicists we know of, right behind Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton (even Einstein himself placed as much importance on Maxwell’s work, and kept a picture of Maxwell on his study wall, near pictures of Faraday and Newton). “Maxwell demonstrated that electric and magnetic fields travel through space in the form of waves, and at the constant speed of light.” (Wiki)
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