The IET Electromagnetics Network had their very first webinar on the 16th June “Electromagnetic Waves: Successfully Surfing the Subject” (now available on demand) which took everyone through a historical perspective and explained how a variety of basic experiments with magnets, electrical currents and electrical circuits gave rise to a series of simple rules defining how electrical and magnetic phenomena behave and how they are fundamentally interlinked.
Andrew Chugg (the speaker) posed a question to the audience:
“Who do you think was the greatest contributor to the field of electromagnetic waves?”
The audience favourite? Well that was James Clerk-Maxwell by a landslide!
But did Maxwell really contribute the most? More than Faraday or Einstein?
Who do you think was the greatest contributor to electromagnetics?