Short answers, pulled from the story.
James Clerk Maxwell was born on the 13th of June 1831 at 14 India Street in Edinburgh. He later moved to Glenlair, a countryside estate in Kirkcudbrightshire, where he developed a deep focus on nature and mechanics.
James Clerk Maxwell proved that Saturn's rings must be composed of numerous small particles called brick-bats rather than being a solid or fluid ring. This conclusion was presented in his 1859 Adams Prize essay and was confirmed by Voyager flybys in the 1980s.
James Clerk Maxwell demonstrated that electric and magnetic fields travel through space as waves moving at the speed of light. His 1865 paper A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field showed that light consists of transverse undulations of the same medium causing electric and magnetic phenomena.
James Clerk Maxwell created the world's first durable color photograph in 1861 by photographing a tartan ribbon three times through red, green, and blue filters. He then projected the images onto a screen using three projectors equipped with similar filters to reproduce all colors in the scene.
James Clerk Maxwell died on the 5th of November 1879 at the age of 48 from abdominal cancer. This was the same disease that had claimed his mother when she was the same age.