The 1931 two-volume collected works of Willard Gibbs, entitled The Collected Works of J. Willard Gibbs, Two Volumes, published by Longmans, Green and Co., the same set, supposedly, financed by Gibbs student Irving Fisher. [1]
In collected works, Gibbs collected works refers to the collective publications of American engineer and mathematical physicist Willard Gibbs.
After Gibbs' reaction end (death) in 1902, Gibbs student Irving Fisher financed the publication of his Collected Works, in two volumes, the first in thermodynamics, the second being his work in dynamics, vector analysis and multiple algebra, and the electromagnetic theory of light, a collection prefaced in 1906 by Gibbs' student Henry Bumstead and nephew Ralph Gibbs van Name, a professor of physical chemistry at Yale. [1]
Hastings list The following is a listing of Gibbs collected found in the National Academy of Sciences biography done by American physicist Charles Hastings in 1909. [2] Those additions indicated by red bullet ● were added in by American electrochemical engineer Libb Thims:
References 1. Fisher, George W. (2005). “Foreword”, Celebrating Irving Fisher: The Legacy of a Great Economist. Wiley-Blackwell. 2. (a) Hastings, Charles S. (1909). “Josiah Willard Gibbs”, Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, 6, 373–393. (b) Uhler, Horace S. (1938). “Biographical Memoir of Charles Sheldon Hastings 1848-1932” (pdf), National Academy of Sciences, Fall.