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Josiah Willard Gibbs

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His true monument lies not on the shelves of libraries, but in the thoughts of men, and in the history of more than one science.
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From Gibbs's obituary for Rudolf Clausius (1889). See The Collected Works of J. Willard Gibbs, vol. 2, (New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1928), p. 267. Complete volume

 
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