麦克斯韦 / 麥克斯韋

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James Clerk Maxwell

Scottish physicist and mathematician (1831–1879) who formulated the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation

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麦克斯韦 / 麥克斯韋

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maxwell

unit of magnetic flux in the CGS system; also used as a transliteration for the name Maxwell

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Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

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