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Willard Gibbs: The Whole Is Simpler than Its Parts

By Muriel Rukeyser, Maria Popova (Foreword by)
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$32.00
By Muriel Rukeyser, Maria Popova (Foreword by)
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Marginalian Editions presents a groundbreaking poet’s biography of the forgotten scientist who founded physical chemistry, shaping much of the 20th century—and an ingenious, expansive treatise on American creativity, character, and remembrance.

Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839–1903) was an American visionary whose work shaped a century of science by bridging classical mechanics and quantum physics. A kindly and shy bachelor who lectured at Yale in relative obscurity for more than thirty years, he...

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