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Josiah Willard Gibbs

1839–1903 · United States · Born in the 1800s

Founded chemical thermodynamics, introducing free energy, chemical potential and the phase rule.

Fields

Physical chemistry

Related topics

Enthalpy, entropy, Gibbs free energy

Combines enthalpy and entropy through Gibbs energy to predict the thermodynamically allowed direction at fixed temperature and pressure.

Chemists in the same field

Jacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff (1852)Wilhelm Ostwald (1853)Paul Sabatier (1854)Svante Arrhenius (1859)Walther Nernst (1864)Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (1865)