A cgs unit of magnetic flux equal to the flux perpendicular to an area of 1 square centimeter in a magnetic field of 1 gauss.

synonym: Mx.

Dutch: maxwell
Polish: Mx, makswel

Scottish physicist whose equations unified electricity and magnetism and who recognized the electromagnetic nature of light (1831-1879).

synonyms: J. C. Maxwell, James Clerk Maxwell.

Polish: James Clerk Maxwell, Maxwell