Fecha de nacimiento: 11. Febrero 1839
Fecha de muerte: 28. Abril 1903
Josiah Willard Gibbs fue un físico estadounidense que contribuyó de forma destacada a la fundación teórica de la termodinámica.
En una reunión de profesores de Yale, durante una discusión sobre los requisitos lingüísticos en el plan de estudios de pregrado.
Fuente: Citado en M. Rukeyser: Willard Gibbs, (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1942), p. 280.
Fuente: De la carta de Gibbs aceptando la Medalla Rumford (1881). Citado en: A. L. Mackay, Diccionario de Citas Científicas (Londres, 1994).
Fuente: Citado en: R. B. Lindsay, "Sobre la relación entre Matemáticas y Física," Scientific Monthly nº 59, 456 (diciembre de 1944)
Fuente: Citado por C. S. Hastings en "Memoria biográfica de Josiah Willard Gibbs, 1839-1903", National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs, vol. VI, (Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, 1909), pág. 390. Memoria completa http://books.nap.edu/html/biomems/jgibbs.pdf
Fuente: J. Willard Gibbs: Elementary Principles in Statististical Mechanics (1902), Prefacio, viii.
Fuente: J. Willard Gibbs: Elementary Principles in Statististical Mechanics (1902), Prefacio, ix.
About his own scientific work. Quoted in Muriel Rukeyser, Willard Gibbs (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1942), p. 431.
Attributed
Quoted by C. S. Hastings in "Biographical Memoir of Josiah Willard Gibbs 1839-1903," National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs, vol. VI (Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, 1909), p. 390. Complete memoir http://books.nap.edu/html/biomems/jgibbs.pdf
Attributed
At a Yale faculty meeting, during a discussion of language requirements in the undergraduate curriculum. Quoted in Muriel Rukeyser, Willard Gibbs (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1942), p. 280.
Attributed
From the preface to Elementary Principles in Statististical Mechanics (1902), p. viii. Full book https://archive.org/details/elementaryprinc00gibbgoog
Quoted in R. B. Lindsay, "On the Relation of Mathematics and Physics," Scientific Monthly 59, 456 (Dec. 1944)
Attributed
From Gibbs's letter accepting the Rumford Medal (1881). Quoted in A. L. Mackay, Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (London, 1994).
From Gibbs's obituary for Hubert Anson Newton (1897), in the Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/hubert-newton.pdf.
Quoted by Irving Fisher in "The Applications of Mathematics to the Social Sciences," Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 36, 225-243 (1930). Full article http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bams/1183493954
Attributed
From the preface to Elementary Principles in Statististical Mechanics (1902), p. ix.
Quoted in Muriel Rukeyser, Willard Gibbs (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1942), p. 4.
Attributed
From Gibbs's obituary for Rudolf Clausius (1889). See The Collected Works of J. Willard Gibbs, vol. 2 (New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1928), p. 267. Complete volume http://www.archive.org/details/collectedworksj00longgoog
