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Josiah Willard Gibbs : the history of a great mind / Lynde Phelps Wheeler ; with a foreword by A. Whitney Griswold.
LIBRA - Rare QC16.G5 W45 1962 Adams copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wheeler, Lynde Phelps, author.
- Series:
- Yale paperbound ; Y-70.
- Yale paperbound ; Y-70
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gibbs, J. Willard (Josiah Willard), 1839-1903.
- Gibbs, J. Willard.
- Scientists--United States--Biography.
- Scientists.
- United States.
- Local Subjects:
- Gibbs, J. Willard (Josiah Willard), 1839-1903.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Advertisements.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (former owner) (autograph) (Adams copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiii pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 270 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven and London : Yale University Press, 1962.
- Contents:
- Backgrounds
- family and civic
- Backgrounds
- educational
- Tutor at Yale and student abroad
- Return to New Haven and appointment at Yale
- Professor of mathematical physics: thermodynamics
- Recognition
- Professor of mathematical physics: mathematics
- Professor of mathematical physics: optics
- Widening contacts
- Professor of mathematical physics: statistical mechanics
- Professor of mathematical physics: the teacher
- Last years.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-256) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.
- Kislak Center Adams copy is hardbound with dust jacket. Three pages of advertisements at end are for Yale Paperbounds.
- OCLC:
- 530622
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