Scope and Contents
Dates
- 1811 - 1947
- Majority of material found within 1863 - 1903
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Arrangement
Extent
8.92 Linear Feet (21 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Overview
Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839-1903)
Best known for developing the theory of thermodynamics, Gibbs wrote a number of extremely important and influential scientific works, the most significant being "Graphical Methods in the Thermodynamics of Fluids" (1873), "A Method of Geometrical Representation of the Thermodynamic Properties of Substances by Means of Surfaces" (1873), "On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances" (1876, 1878), "Electrochemical Thermodynamics" (1886, 1888), and Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics (1902).
He lived at the home of his sister and brother-in-law, Julia Gibbs and Addison Van Name, and died unmarried in New Haven on April 28, 1903.
For additional biographical information, see the Dictionary of American Biography, IV, pp. 248-51; Muriel Rukeyser, Willard Gibbs (1942), and Lynde Phelps Wheeler, Josiah Willard Gibbs, the History of a Great Mind (1951).
Processing Information
This finding aid was produced in 2014 from a previously existing card set in the Manuscripts Catalog. All pertinent bibliographical information has been retained.
Former call number: MS Vault Gibbs.
- Bancroft, Wilder D. (Wilder Dwight), 1867-1953
- Beecher, William Henry, 1802-1889
- Bridgeman, Elijah Coleman
- Buchholz, Hugo, 1866-1921
- Day, George Edward, 1815-1872
- Dexter, Franklin Bowditch, 1842-1920
- Dwight, Timothy, 1828-1916
- Gibbs family
- Gibbs, J. Willard (Josiah Willard), 1839-1903
- Gibbs, Josiah W. (Josiah Willard), 1790-1861
- Goodenow, Smith B. (Smith Bartlett), 1817-1897
- Macy, William Allen
- Mathematics -- Study and teaching
- Orbits
- Ostwald, Wilhelm, 1853-1932
- Physicists -- United States
- Physicists -- United States -- 19th century
- Physics -- Study and teaching
- Planck, Max, 1858-1947
- Scientists -- United States
- Scientists -- United States -- 19th century
- Silliman, Benjamin, 1779-1864
- Starkweather, George P.
- Thomson, J. J. (Joseph John), 1856-1940
- Yale University
- Title
- Josiah Willard Gibbs Papers
- Status
- Under Revision
- Author
- Beinecke Staff
- Date
- October 2014
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
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