Statistical mechanics is one of the pillars of modern physics. Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906) and Josiah Willard Gibbs ...

What is Gibbs free energy? Josiah Willard Gibbs, an American mathematician, first described Gibbs free energy in the 1870s. According to Gibbs, free energy is the total energy of a system that is ...

ON February 11 the centenary occurs of the birth of the distinguished American physicist, Josiah Willard Gibbs. Born at New Haven, he was the son of Josiah Gibbs (1790–1861), professor of sacred ...

The History of a Great Mind. By Lynde Phelps Wheeler. Pp. xi + 264 + 9 plates. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1951.) 25s. net. For a study of Gibbs's ...

“I think Gibbs would have appreciated this current situation,” Yale President Peter Salovey said, invoking the old building’s namesake, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Class of 1858 Ph.D. 1863. Gibbs was a ...

The Willard Gibbs Award, established in 1910, is named for pioneering Yale scientist Josiah Willard Gibbs. Past winners include Marie Curie and Linus Pauling. “I am pleased and excited to have been ...

Statistical mechanics is one of the pillars of modern physics. Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906) and Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839–1903) were its primary formulators. They both worked to establish a ...

Suzanne Lenhart, Chancellor’s Professor in the Department of Mathematics, will join a storied list of honored speakers to deliver the Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture at the world’s largest annual ...

The Yale community commemorated the demolition of the Josiah Willard Gibbs Laboratory on Science Hill and the groundbreaking of the new Yale Science Building on Tuesday afternoon. The new Science ...

On the Gibbs temperature scale, the whole domain of negative Boltzmann temperatures corresponds to the limiting case T G → : such systems are hot, but not hotter than hot.