Josiah Willard Gibbs: Exercises in Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of Publication of His Work on Heterogeneous Substance : with Addresses at the Graduates Club in New Haven, Connecticut in June, MCMXXVII.

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Graduates Club, 1927 - Mathematicians - 20 pages
 

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Page 16 - This whole theory of physical chemistry of today is contained in Gibbs, and the science of the physical chemistry was made in the State of Connecticut and not in Germany, ' ' as was supposed at that time. This statement was admitted to be correct by Professor von Helmholtz, who knew about these theories more than anyone else in Germany, otherwise he would not have permitted me to make use of it in my doctor's dissertation.
Page 16 - US and get married. My doctor's dissertation was suggested by my study of Gibbs. It related to a physical concept first revealed by Gibbs, the Free Energy concept. Now in this doctor's dissertation, which I still have, I said, in substance, "This whole theory of physical chemistry of today is contained in Gibbs, and the science of the physical chemistry was made in the State of Connecticut and not in Germany, ' ' as was supposed at that time.
Page 16 - ... little mathematical training they were not so very difficult. I told Helmholtz about it. "Everything you have done," said I, "and everything the physical chemists are doing today, is apparently all in Gibbs.

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