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    Josiah Willard Gibbs (/ɡɪbz/; February 11, 1839 – April 28, 1903) was an American scientist who made significant theoretical contributions to physics,...
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    Josiah Willard Gibbs Sr. (30 April 1790 – 25 March 1861) was an American linguist and theologian, who served as professor of sacred literature at Yale...
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    oceanographic research ship USNS Josiah Willard Gibbs (T-AGOR-1)—named after American scientist Josiah Willard Gibbs—and placed in service as a non-commissioned...
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  • ensemble as being in "statistical equilibrium". Gibbs algorithm Gibbs measure KMS state Gibbs, Josiah Willard (1902). Elementary Principles in Statistical...
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    of Gibbs free energy, originally called available energy, was developed in the 1870s by the American scientist Josiah Willard Gibbs. In 1873, Gibbs described...
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  • ringing artifacts in signal processing. It is named after Josiah Willard Gibbs. The Gibbs phenomenon is a behavior of the Fourier series of a function...
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  • The Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (also called the Gibbs Lecture) of the American Mathematical Society is an annually awarded mathematical prize, named...
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    microscopic phenomena. The equation is named after Josiah Willard Gibbs and Pierre Duhem. Deriving the Gibbs–Duhem equation from the fundamental thermodynamic...
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    published in March 1902, is a work of scientific literature by Josiah Willard Gibbs which is considered to be the foundation of modern statistical mechanics...
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    was later investigated extensively, in its modern generic form, by Josiah Willard Gibbs in 1902. The Boltzmann distribution should not be confused with the...
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    Ramamurti Shankar (born April 28, 1947) is the Josiah Willard Gibbs professor of Physics at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut. He received his...
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    called the Donnan potential. The effect is named after the American Josiah Willard Gibbs who proposed it in 1878 and the British chemist Frederick G. Donnan...
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  • the Gibbs free energy, which was presented originally by Josiah Willard Gibbs, varies with temperature. It was derived by Helmholtz first, and Gibbs derived...
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    Bidwell Wilson, first published in 1901 and based on the lectures that Josiah Willard Gibbs had delivered on the subject at Yale University. The book did much...
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  • In physics and mathematics, the Gibbs measure, named after Josiah Willard Gibbs, is a probability measure frequently seen in many problems of probability...
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  • American banker Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839–1903), American physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs Sr. (1790–1861), American theologian Josiah Given (1828–1908), American...
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  • desired distribution and are usually discarded. Gibbs sampling is named after the physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs, in reference to an analogy between the sampling...
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  • particular cases of the Gibbs Equations of Josiah Willard Gibbs: the Kelvin equation is the constant temperature case, and the Gibbs–Thomson equation is the...
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  • Most of these relations can be dated to founder of vector calculus Josiah Willard Gibbs, if not earlier. The magnitude of a vector A can be expressed using...
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    in the late 19th century by Ludwig Boltzmann, Henri Poincaré, and Josiah Willard Gibbs. In a phase space, every degree of freedom or parameter of the system...
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  • substance in question). This leads to a paradox known as the Gibbs paradox, after Josiah Willard Gibbs, who proposed this thought experiment in 1874‒1875. The...
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    August Kekulé von Stradonitz, 1829–1896 Dmitri Mendeleev, 1834–1907 Josiah Willard Gibbs, 1839–1903 J. H. van 't Hoff, 1852–1911 William Ramsay, 1852–1916...
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  • motion (aka the Gibbs–Appell equation of motion) is an alternative general formulation of classical mechanics described by Josiah Willard Gibbs in 1879 and...
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    and other subjects. One milestone was the publication in 1876 by Josiah Willard Gibbs of his paper, On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances. This...
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  • Phase rule (redirect from Gibbs phase rule)
    {\displaystyle F=C-P+2} : 123–125  It was derived by American physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs in his landmark paper titled On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous...
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    with Oswald Veblen, who spent the year at Oxford. Hardy gave the Josiah Willard Gibbs lecture for 1928. Hardy left Oxford and returned to Cambridge in...
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    distributions are derived from Gibbs' inequality, including Fano's inequality. It was first presented by J. Willard Gibbs in the 19th century. Suppose that...
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    thermodynamic potentials was introduced by Pierre Duhem in 1886. Josiah Willard Gibbs in his papers used the term fundamental functions. While thermodynamic...
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  • scientist Josiah Willard Gibbs: Gibbs algorithm Gibbs canonical ensemble Gibbs distribution Gibbs elasticity Gibbs ensemble Gibbs entropy Gibbs free energy...
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  • Reprinted in: Josiah Willard Gibbs with Henry Andrews Bumstead and Ralph Gibbs van Name, ed.s, The Scientific Papers of J. Willard Gibbs, ..., vol. 1,...
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