Josiah willard gibbs accomplishments quotes

Josiah Willard Gibbs (February 111839 – April 281903) was an American theoretical physicist, chemist and mathematician.

Anonymous — 'Perplexed about entropy?

One of the greatest American scientists of all time, he devised much of the theoretical foundation for chemical thermodynamics, as well as physical chemistry and statistical mechanics.

Quotes

• One of the principal objects of theoretical research is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in the greatest simplicity.
  • From Gibbs's letter accepting the Rumford Medal (1881). Quoted in A. L. Mackay, Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (London, 1994).

• His true monument lies not on the shelves of libraries, but in the thoughts of men, and in the history of more than one science.
  • From Gibbs's obituary for Rudolf Clausius (1889). See The Collected Works of J. Willard Gibbs, vol.

    In this lesson, you will learn about the personal life of famous scientist Willard Gibbs, who was the first ever U.S. student to receive a Ph.D.

  • In this lesson, you will learn about the personal life of famous scientist Willard Gibbs, who was the first ever U.S. student to receive a Ph.D.
  • Josiah Willard Gibbs was an American scientist who made significant theoretical contributions to physics, chemistry, and mathematics.
  • One of the principal objects of research in my department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in the greatest simplicity.
  • Willard Gibbs was one of the most important scientists of all time.
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  2 (New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1928), p. 267. Complete volume

• In all these papers we see a love of honest work, an aversio