J. Willard Gibbs

Josiah Willard Gibbs, Jr. (February 11, 1839 – April 28, 1903) was an American physicist and mathemetician.

Selected writings

Much of Gibbs' scientific work is reprinted in The Scientific Papers of J. Willard Gibbs; Bumstead, Henry Andrews; Gibbs van Name, Ralph, Eds.; Longmans, Green: London, 1906, <http://www.archive.org/details/scientificpaper00gibbgoog> (2 vols.)

• Gibbs, J. W. Graphical Methods in the Thermodynamics of Fluids. Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts Sci. 1873, 2, 309–42.
• Gibbs, J. W. A Method of Geometrical Representation of the Thermodynamic Properties of Substances by Means of Surfaces. Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts Sci. 1873, 2, 382–404.
• Gibbs, J. W. On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances. Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts Sci. 1876, 3, 108–248; Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts Sci. 1878, 3, 343–524.

External links

• Biography from MacTutor
• Biography from the American Institute of Physics
• Biography at NNDB