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Josiah Willard Gibbs (* 11. Februar 1839 in New Haven, Connecticut; † 28. April 1903 ebenda) war ein amerikanischer Wissenschaftler, der bedeutende theoretische Beiträge zur Physik, Chemie und Mathematik leistete.
Josiah Willard Gibbs Sr. (30 April 1790 – 25 March 1861) was an American linguist and theologian, who served as professor of sacred literature at Yale University. [1] He is remembered mainly for his involvement with the Amistad case and as the father of theoretical physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs.
Josiah Gibbs was a linguist and theologian who served as professor of sacred literature at Yale Divinity School from 1824 until his death in 1861.
When Josiah Willard Gibbs died in 1903, a European physicist described him as “the greatest synthetic philosopher since Newton.” And this was before scientists really understood the full importance of his work.
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- Male
- April 30, 1790
- Mary Anna (Van Cleve) Gibbs
- March 25, 1861
15. Dez. 2021 · Yale University has been selected by the American Chemical Society’s Division of the History of Chemistry to receive the 2021 Citation for Chemical Breakthrough Award for Josiah Willard Gibbs’s 1878 publication explaining the laws of thermodynamics, “On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances” (Trans. Connecticut. Acad ...
Mathematiker und Physiker, * New Haven (Conn.) 11.2.1839, † ebd. 28.4.1903; wirkte seit 1871 als Prof. für mathemat. Physik am Yale College in New Haven. G. gehört zu den Begründern der modernen Thermodynamik (u.a. Einführung versch. thermodynamischer Funktionen und der für sie geltenden Gleichungen) sowie der statist. Mechanik.
