Published “The Immune Landscape of Cancer” in Immunity — cited 4,795 times.
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Josiah Willard Gibbs
Josiah Willard Gibbs was an American mechanical engineer and scientist who made fundamental theoretical contributions to physics, chemistry, and mathematics. His work on the applications of thermodynamics was instrumental in transforming physical chemistry into a rigorous deductive science. Together with James Clerk Maxwell and Ludwig Boltzmann, he created statistical mechanics, explaining the law…
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science · American scientist (1839–1903) · mathematician · physicist · chemist · university teacher · theoretical physicist · engineer · thermodynamicist · statistical physicist · also Josiah Willard Gibbs, J. Willard Gibbs, Josiah W. Gibbs, Gibbs
Born 11 February 1839 · Died 28 April 1903 · Q153243
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2015· 2 entries
Published “2015 ESC/ERS Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary hypertension” in European Heart Journal — cited 5,134 times.
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Published “A global reference for human genetic variation” in Nature — cited 17,839 times.
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2013· 1 entry
Published “The Somatic Genomic Landscape of Glioblastoma” in Cell — cited 4,504 times.
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2005· 2 entries
The United States Postal Service issued the American Scientists commemorative postage stamp series designed by artist Victor Stabin, depicting Gibbs, John von Neumann, Barbara McClintock, and Richard Feynman
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Published “Global Consequences of Land Use” in Science — cited 9,881 times.
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2003· 1 entry
Published “The International HapMap Project” in Nature — cited 4,925 times.
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2001· 1 entry
Published “Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome” in Nature — cited 18,636 times.
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2000· 1 entry
Published “The Genome Sequence of <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>” in Science — cited 4,821 times.
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1989· 1 entry
And another on the centenary of his death, in 2003
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1965· 1 entry
Published “On the Temperature Dependence of Cooperative Relaxation Properties in Glass-Forming Liquids” in The Journal of Chemical Physics — cited 5,411 times.
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1960· 1 entry
William Giauque and others suggested the name "gibbs" (abbreviated gbs
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1958· 1 entry
USS San Carlos was renamed USNS Josiah Willard Gibbs and re-designated as an oceanographic research ship
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1954· 1 entry
A year before his death, Albert Einstein was asked by an interviewer who were the greatest thinkers that he had known
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1947· 1 entry
Samuelson published Foundations of Economic Analysis, based on his doctoral dissertation, in which he used as epigraph a remark attributed to Gibbs: "Mathematics is a language
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1946· 1 entry
Fortune magazine illustrated a cover story on "Fundamental Science" with a representation of the thermodynamic surface that Maxwell had built based on Gibbs's proposal
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1942· 1 entry
To positive literary but mixed scientific reviews, he tried to encourage Gibbs's former students to produce a more technically oriented biography
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1933· 1 entry
And this was used also by Dirk ter Haar in 1966
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1923· 1 entry
The American Mathematical Society endowed the Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship, "to show the public some idea of the aspects of mathematics and its applications"
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1919· 1 entry
In The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma, edited by Henry Adams's younger brother Brooks
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1912· 1 entry
In the form of a bronze bas-relief by sculptor Lee Lawrie, installed in the Sloane Physics Laboratory
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1910· 1 entry
The American Chemical Society established the Willard Gibbs Award for eminent work in pure or applied chemistry
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1909· 1 entry
The American historian and novelist Henry Adams finished an essay entitled "The Rule of Phase Applied to History", in which he sought to apply Gibbs's phase rule and other thermodynamic concepts to a general theory of hu
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1906· 1 entry
To give the Silliman lecture, he was surprised to find no tangible memorial for Gibbs
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1904· 1 entry
Even though Maxwell and Boltzmann had previously explained the irreversibility of macroscopic physical processes in probabilistic terms, "the one who has seen it most clearly, in a book too little read because it is a li
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1903· 5 entries
Died 1903-04-28.
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At the age of 64, the victim of an acute intestinal obstruction
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His estate was valued at $100,000 (roughly $3
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“A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.”
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“Uno de los principales objetos de la investigación en mi departamento de conocimiento es encontrar el punto de vista desde el cual el sujeto aparece en su mayor simplicidad.”
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1901· 3 entries
Won Copley Medal (1901).
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Gibbs received what was then considered the highest honor awarded by the international scientific community, the Copley Medal of the Royal Society of London, "for his contributions to mathematical physics"
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With the Copley Medal, then regarded as the highest international award in the natural sciences, noting that he had been "the first to apply the second law of thermodynamics to the exhaustive discussion of the relation b
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1897· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1897).
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1895· 1 entry
Was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1895
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1892· 3 entries
And into French by Henri Louis Le Châtelier in 1899
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As Mathematical Investigations in the Theory of Value and Prices, Fisher drew a direct analogy between Gibbsian equilibrium in physical and chemical systems, and the general equilibrium of markets, and he used Gibbs's ve
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And elected Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1897
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1881· 1 entry
And 1884 for the use of his students, and were later adapted by Edwin Bidwell Wilson into a textbook, Vector Analysis, published in 1901
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1880· 1 entry
Awarded Rumford Prize (1880).
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1879· 2 entries
And received the 1880 Rumford Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for his work on chemical thermodynamics
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Gibbs derived the Gibbs–Appell equation of motion, rediscovered in 1900 by Paul Émile Appell
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1875· 1 entry
Which illustrates Gibbs's thermodynamic surface for water
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1874· 1 entry
“On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances”
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1871· 1 entry
Was appointed Professor of Mathematical Physics at Yale, the first such professorship in the United States
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1869· 1 entry
Studied at Heidelberg University (1868–1869).
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1868· 1 entry
Studied at Frederick William University Berlin (1867–1868).
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1867· 1 entry
Studied at University of Paris (1866–1867).
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1866· 1 entry
Patented a design for a railway brake and read a paper before the Connecticut Academy, entitled "The Proper Magnitude of the Units of Length", in which he proposed a scheme for rationalizing the system of units of mea
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1863· 3 entries
Yale University awarded Gibbs the first American doctorate in engineering
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Gibbs received the first Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) in engineering granted in the US, for a thesis entitled "On the Form of the Teeth of Wheels in Spur Gearing", in which he used geometrical techniques to investigate
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Studied at Yale University, Doctor (1863).
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1861· 2 entries
Gibbs inherited enough money to make him financially independent
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Yale had become the first US university to offer a PhD degree and Gibbs's was only the fifth PhD granted in the US in any subject
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1860· 1 entry
Studied at Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science (1860).
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1858· 2 entries
Studied at Sheffield Scientific School (1858).
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Studied at Yale College (1854–1858).
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1854· 1 entry
Studied at Hopkins School (1854).
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1840· 1 entry
To the faculty at the University of Berlin, in which he had first introduced the notion of what would later be called a vector space (linear space)
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1839· 1 entry
Born 1839-02-11.
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