Gibbs’ father, Yale Divinity School professor Josiah Willard Gibbs Sr., Class of 1809, was an abolitionist who located a translator for the Amistad trial by learning to count to 10 in the slaves’ ...

World-renowned physicist, chemist and mathematician J. Willard Gibbs will be honored with a symposium at Yale on Friday, February 28 from 1 to 5 p.m. in Davies Auditorium,15 Prospect St. “Celebrating ...

Yale’s Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, the John Gamble Kirkwood Professor of Chemistry in the Faculty of Arts and Science, was named the winner of the 2021 Willard Gibbs Award by the American Chemical Society ...

I find this absolutely disappointing, as Gibbs was a man who donated his entire stellar career to this institution. Josiah Willard Gibbs was the quintessential Yalie. He received the first doctorate ...

For every 100 U. S. citizens who have heard of Thomas Alva Edison, it would be hard to find one who has heard of Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839-1903). Some years ago, however, a gathering of British ...

WILLARD GIBBS — Muriel Rukeyser—Doubleday, Doran ... Professors, publicists, prominent Yale men for years have publicly confessed ignorance of Yale’s most distinguished son.

Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, the John Gamble Kirkwood Professor of Chemistry at Yale University, is the winner of the 2021 Willard Gibbs Medal Award, presented by the American Chemical Society Chicago ...

NEW HAVEN Josiah Willard Gibbs, Yale fixture of the 19th century and one of America s top scientists, was a modest man who liked to work alone. Gibbs, one of four American scientists honored on a ...

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NEW HAVEN Josiah Willard Gibbs, Yale fixture of the 19th century and one of America s top scientists, was a modest man who liked to work alone. Gibbs, one of four American scientists honored on a ...

IT is now sixty-four years since Willard Gibbs published in the Transactions of the Connecticut Academy the first of his classical papers on thermodynamic theory, and thirty-five since the ...