GIBBS, J WILLARD

Additional reading The most considerable biography yet available is Lynde Phelps Wheeler, Josiah Willard Gibbs (1970), containing an extensive bibliography. One of the best personal accounts of Gibbs is E.B. Wilson, Reminiscences of Gibbs by a Student and Colleague, Scient. Mon., 32:211227 (1931). A biography for the general reader is contained in J.G. Crowther, Famous American Men of Science (1969). An appraisal of his work is F.G. Donnan and A.E. Haas (eds.), A Commentary on the Scientific Writings of J. Willard Gibbs (1936). His papers have been brought together as The Collected Works of J. Willard Gibbs, ed. by W.R. Longley and R.G. Van Name, with a biographical sketch by H.A. Bumstead (1928).