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J·W·吉布斯(Josiah Willard Gibbs)是1893年2月11日出生于美国康涅狄克州的纽黑文(New Haven),1854年进入耶鲁大学,1858年毕业。接着获得拉丁语和数学方面奖学金而成为耶鲁工程学研究生,1863年取得美国首批博士学位,留校讲授拉丁文和自然哲学。1866～1869年去欧洲进修,在巴黎,柏林和海德堡各一年,就学于H·G·马格纽斯,G·R·基尔霍夫和H·V·亥姆霍兹等著名科学家。1869年回国后一直在耶鲁大学执教,1871年被任合为数学物理教授,他保持这个职位直到1903年逝世。吉布斯从未结
Josiah Willard Gibbs was born on February 11, 1893 in New Haven, Connecticut and entered Yale University in 1854, where he graduated in 1858. Followed by scholarships in Latin and mathematics to become a graduate student in Yale Engineering, the first batch of doctoral degrees in the United States in 1863, to teach Latin and natural philosophy. Studied in Europe from 1866 to 1869, and studied for a year in Paris, Berlin and Heidelberg, where he studied at such famous scientists as G.G.G. Magnius, G.K. Kirchhoff, and H.V. Helmholtz. After returning to China in 1869, he was coached at Yale University. In 1871 he was appointed a professor of mathematics and physics and he remained in the post until his death in 1903. Gibbs never knot