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Maxwell

Meaning

From a Scottish surname meaning "Mack's stream", from the name Mack, a short form of the Scandinavia

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Maxwell material

A Maxwell material is a viscoelastic material having the properties both of elasticity and viscosity.

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Maxwell Award

The Maxwell Award is presented annually to the college football player judged by a panel of sportscasters, sportswriters, and National Collegiate Athletic Association head coaches and the membership.

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Maxwell Dane

Maxwell "Mac" Dane (June 7, 1906 – August 8, 2004) was an American advertising executive and co-founder of the Doyle Dane Bernbach agency, known as DDB, that was established in Manhattan in 1949.

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Maxwell Grant

Maxwell Grant was a pen name used by the authors of The Shadow pulp magazine stories from the 1930s to 1960s.

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Maxwell

Maxwell most commonly refers to the mathematician and physicist named James Clerk Maxwell.

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