Cavendish Professor of Physics
1871 AD hired
He returns to Cambridge to become the first Cavendish Professor of Physics.
Maxwell was put in charge of the development of the Cavendish Laboratory, supervising every step in the progress of the building and of the purchase of the collection of apparatus.
One of Maxwell's last great contributions to science was the editing (with copious original notes) of the research of Henry Cavendish, from which it appeared that Cavendish researched, amongst other things, such questions as the density of the Earth and the composition of water.
Subjects Who or What hired?
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University of Cambridge School
Objects To Whom or What was hired?
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James Clerk Maxwell Most famous for his form...
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