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This article is inspired by the celebration of the year light in 2015 and regards the long lasting relationship between man and light. Man started using light in prehistoric times and the oldest traces of scientific investigations on light date back to ancient China and Greece. While the long march of science led to the modern theories of light Maxwell, Einstien and quantum electrodynamics, light...
The United Nations Educational,
Scientific, and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO) has designated
2015 the International Year of Light and
Light-Based Technologies [1]. Those of
us who remember the exceptional contributions
to science made by James
Clerk Maxwell can be led to believe that
UNESCOâs choice is related to the publication
of A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic
Field in...
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