Mài kè sī wéi

Traditional: 麥克斯韋

麦克斯韦 (Mài kè sī wéi) is a Chinese word meaning “Maxwell (name); James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), Scottish physicist and mathematician, the originator of Maxwell's laws of electromagnetism and electromagnetic waves”.

Meanings

  1. 1Maxwell (name)
  2. 2James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), Scottish physicist and mathematician, the originator of Maxwell's laws of electromagnetism and electromagnetic waves

Characters in 麦克斯韦

麦mài · wheat; barley; oats克kè · to be able to斯sī · (phonetic)韦wéi · soft leather

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