J. Willard Gibbs

After publishing his first thermodynamic work "Graphical methods in the thermodynamics of fluids", J. Willard Gibbs later created the general thermodynamic theory, which is a strict physical theory applying to the whole real world.

• A short biography on Gibbs is at Berkeley
• A longer biogaphy is at the spectacular History of Mathematics archive by John J O'Connor and Edmund F Robertson of the School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences University of St Andrews St Andrews, Scotland.
• There is a a bronze bas-relief of Gibbs at the J. Willard Gibbs Laboratory at Yale.

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origin: 1997 November 24
updated: 1998 February 9