Matter of opinion. I think Maxwell was FAR greater than Einstein. It's just that Einstein died in the 50s and many of us can remember him dying. He based his work on that of Maxwell, without crediting Maxwell.
That's a load of BS .
On Einstein:
He once said I owe more to Maxwell than to anyone. Because there would be no modern physics without Maxwell’s electromagnetic field equations. On his 100th birthday, Einstein appreciated his work as the “most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton.” When Einstein was asked if he stood on the shoulders of Newton, he replied: “No, on the shoulders of Maxwell.”
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The person whose name is synonymized nowadays with the word ‘genius’ had his scientific masters too. Few of them include Newton, Maxwell, Mach, Planck, Faraday, and Lorentz. He, without any hesitation, regarded Lorentz as one of the most powerful thinkers. He acknowledged him in words that he would never have been able to discover the special theory of relativity without his prior contributions. On one of his bookshelves, he had a small leather framed portrait of Professor H. A. Lorentz.
Albert Einstein kept a picture of English scientist Michael Faraday on his study wall, alongside pictures of Isaac Newton and James Clerk Maxwell at his apartment in Berlin, Germany. He once quoted “England has always produced the best physicists”. He expressed his warmth in an essay written for the centenary of Maxwell’s birth [1931] as, “The greatest change in the axiomatic basis of physics, and correspondingly in our conception of the structure of reality, since the foundation of theoretical physics through Newton, came about through the researches of Faraday and Maxwell on electromagnetic phenomena.”
<<That's a load of BS .>>
And that's about up to your normal level of complete childishness, especially since nothing you follow it up with backs up the childish reaction. Instead, it probably supports my claim, which I believe may well be true.
Incidentally, Newton was also a plagiarist. He based many of his ideas on Hooke's work and used his position to have all of Hooke's notes destroyed. Hooke was the greater scientist by far. Newton was more of a theoretician than a scientist but Hooke was disliked, because he was bad tempered and unpleasant, so Newton got away with it. It's my belief that Hooke's Law wouldn't have come about without Hooke having a full understanding of gravity, since he needed a reliable system of standards to base his stress/strain measurements upon. It's also known that Hooke formulated a theory of gravity, which was very slightly incorrect. Newton's apple is known to be untrue. Presumably, it was Newton's attempt to predate Hooke's work. It's known that Newton had all of Hooke's notes destroyed and Hooke was the maybe the greatest English scientist since Bacon, so it was obviously for a reason.
So. Everything is a waste of time. All we are is dust in the wind. Happy?
Happy dust! It swirls in ecstasy!