Sisir Bhanja did his Ph D from the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata. Apart from his doctoral work on the physics of molecular collisions, he did some work on Mossbauer effect. He retired some time back from the Department of Physics, St Xavier’s College, Kolkata, where he taught for a number of years. Currently, he is pursuing studies in gravitation and cosmology.

James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) was one of the greatest theoretical
physicists of the nineteenth century. He is remembered for his pioneering
contributions to diverse fields of mathematical physics. His work in
thermal physics bears two distinct approaches:

1. Thermodynamics or the macroscopic description,

and

2. Kinetic theory or the molecular and statistical approach.

We discuss both these approaches in this article.

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Address for Correspondence

Sisir Bhanja
DA Salt Lake
Sector 1
Kolkata 700 064
Email: sisbhanja@hotmail.com