Josiah Willard Gibbs

The American physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs obviously was a major player — among other things, he introduced the concept of the statistical ensemble, the primary tool by which we nowadays think of thermodynamic systems.

Metaphor to Action Sean 2008

Ostwald translated Josiah Willard Gibbs 'works from English into German in 1892 and founded one of the first journals of physical chemistry with Jacobus van 't Hoff (1852-1911), a Dutch chemist.

Ostwald, Wilhelm 2007

In a sense, the most abstractly conceived general space in the nineteenth century was the phase space of statistical mechanics, especially in the general ver - sion of Josiah Willard Gibbs.

SPACE SALOMON BOCHNER 1968