He was born the same year that Michael Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction. Subsequently, he translated into the language of differential equations, familiar to physicists since the time of Newton and Leibniz, the picture of space permeated by the lines of force of electric and magnetic fields, which the great experimenter saw with his inner vision. Grateful descendants forever associated his name with his deduced electromagnetic field equations, amazed by their depth and courage of his thought, admired their beauty. Ludwig Boltzmann prefaced his lectures on these equations with an epigraph from his favorite Schiller: "Did God write these lines?" The man in question has left a deep trace in all areas of physical science, which he managed to touch during his bright, full of magnificent achievements, but - alas! - so short life: in the theory of elasticity, statistical mechanics, the kinetic theory of gases and, as already mentioned, the theory of the electromagnetic field. Ero's name was James Clerk Maxwell. (The Scots pronounce his name somewhat differently: James Clark Maxwell, but we will follow the historically established in Russian literature transcription of the great name).