Josiah Willard Gibbs
Josiah Willard Gibbs
Josiah Willard Gibbs 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, 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.
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Date of Birth
February 11st, 1839
Age
185
Birth Place
United States of America, Connecticut
Date of Death
April 28th, 1903
Died Aged
64
Star Sign
Aquarius
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