Josiah Willard Gibbs
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Josiah Willard Gibbs was an American mechanical engineer and scientist who made fundamental theoretical contributions to physics, chemistry, and mathematics. His work on the applications of thermodyna
Josiah Willard Gibbs from MMS
Willard Gibbs as a young man
Gibbs during his time as a tutor at Yale
Maxwell's sketch of the lines of constant temperature and pressure, made in preparation for his construction of a solid model based on Gibbs's definition of a thermodynamic surface for water (see Maxwell's thermodynamic surface)
Ludwig Boltzmann
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Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann was an Austrian mathematician and theoretical physicist. His greatest achievements were the development of statistical mechanics and the statistical explanation of the second l
Josiah Willard Gibbs
…applications of thermodynamics was instrumental in transforming physical chemistry into a rigorous deductive science. Together with James Clerk Maxwell and Ludwig Boltzmann, he created statistical mechanics (a term that he coined), explaining the laws of thermodynamics as consequences of the statistical properties of…
Boltzmann in 1902
Ludwig Boltzmann and co-workers in Graz, 1887: (standing, from the left) Nernst, Streintz, Arrhenius, Hiecke, (sitting, from the left) Aulinger, Ettingshausen, Boltzmann, Klemenčič, Hausmanninger
Boltzmann's 1898 I2 molecule diagram showing atomic "sensitive region" (α, β) overlap
Boltzmann's bust in the courtyard arcade of the main building, University of Vienna