Josiah Willard Gibbs

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Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839-02-111903-04-28) was an American theoretical physicist, chemist and mathematician. One of the greatest American scientists of all time, he devised much of the theoretical foundation for chemical thermodynamics as well as physical chemistry.


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  • One of the principal objects of research in my department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in the greatest simplicity.
    • Quoted in A L Mackay, Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (London, 1994)

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