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I FEEL greatly honoured in being given this opportunity of paying a tribute of reverence to the memory of James Clerk Maxwell, the creator of the electromagnetic theory, which is of such fundamental importance to the work of every physicist. In this celebration we have heard the Master of Trinity and Sir Joseph Larmor speak, with the greatest authority and charm, of Maxwell's wonderful discoveries and personality, and of the unbroken tradition upheld here in Cambridge connecting his life and his work with our time. Although I have had the great privilege, in the years of my early studies, of coming under the spell of Cambridge and the inspiration of the great English physicists, I fear that it may not be possible for me to add anything of sufficient interest in this respect, but it gives me very great pleasure indeed to be invited to say a few words about the relation between Maxwell's work and the subsequent development of atomic physics.
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BOHR, N. Maxwell and Modern Theoretical Physics*. Nature 128, 691–692 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128691a0
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