Willard Gibbs (eBook)

The Whole Is Simpler than Its Parts

Muriel Rukeyser (Autor)

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2025
464 Seiten
McNally Editions (Verlag)
9781961341166 (ISBN)

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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 single-handedly created the field of physical chemistry without ever completing a single experiment. Gibbs s visionary work enabled future scientists to predict what states a substance can assume and under what conditions the implications for industry, agriculture, and warfare were vast. Hailed by Einstein as the greatest mind in American history, Gibbs remained essentially unknown.To acclaimed poet Muriel Rukeyser, Gibbs lived closer than any inventor, any poet, any scientific worker in pure imagination to the life of the inventive and organizing spirit in America. Rukeyser s thoroughly researched and lyrical tribute to Gibbs is much more than a biography: it is an alchemical compound of philosophy, history, ethics, and literature writ large. It is the story of a country, a century, a global epoch of scientific creativity that would color every realm of human imagination and aspiration, from poetry to politics.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.4.2025
• Vorwort: Maria Popova
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie ► Physikalische Chemie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Thermodynamik
• Schlagworte: american scientists • best american poets • best science biographies • Brain Pickings • Creativity • Einstein • geometry of motion • Marginalian • phase rule • Physical Chemistry • Quantum Physics • Relativity • Statistical Mechanics • The Marginalian, Brain Pickings, creativity, science biographies, scientist biography, biographies by poets, American scientists, American poets, physical chemistry, Yale Younger Poets, thermodynamics, phase rule, Einstein, statistical mechanics, vector analysis, relativity, quantum physics, geometry of motion, New Haven, greatest scientists, search for meaning, Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize for Physics, Wilhelm Ostwald, Nobel Prize for Chemistry, Theory of Flight, American modernism, Leftist politics, activ • thermodynamics • Vector analysis • Yale Younger Poets
• ISBN-13: 9781961341166 / 9781961341166