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Who unified electricity and magnetism into one electromagnetic field theory in 1873?
AGalileo Galilei
BJames Clerk Maxwell
CMichael Faraday
DSir Isaac Newton
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. James Clerk Maxwell
Maxwell showed electricity and magnetism are effects of a single field and that light is an electromagnetic wave.
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