1839 - 1903
Josiah Willard Gibbs American Scientist
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| First Name |
Josiah
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| Middle Name |
Willard
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| Last Name |
Gibbs
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| Birthday |
11th February, 1839
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| Birthplace |
New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
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| Died |
28th April, 1903
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| Place of Death |
New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
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| Zodiac Sign |
Aquarius
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation |
Scientist
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Josiah Willard Gibbs (February 11, 1839 – April 28, 1903) was an American scientist who made significant theoretical contributions to physics, chemistry, and mathematics. His work on the applications of thermodynamics was instrumental in transforming physical chemistry into a rigorous inductive science. Together with James Clerk Maxwell and Ludwig Boltzmann, he created statistical mechanics (a term that he coined), explaining the laws of thermodynamics as consequences of the statistical properties of ensembles of the possible states of a physical system composed of many particles. Gibbs also worked on the application of Maxwell's equations to problems in physical optics. As a mathematician, he invented modern vector calculus (independently of the British scientist Oliver Heaviside, who carried out similar work during the same period).
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