electromagnetic field: Quick Facts

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Learn about Michael Faraday's and James Clerk Maxwell's discovery of the electromagnetic field and waves

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Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.

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