Ocupation: Physicist
Life: May 11, 1918 - February 15, 1988
Birthday: May 11
Death: February 15
From a long view of the history of mankind the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics.
source: Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2015). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. II: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Electromagnetism and Matter”, p.71, Hachette UK
topic: Discovery, Views, Law, Thousand Years, Maxwell, Insignificance, Significant Events