The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-04-29
DEATH OF PROF. GIBBS.
ONE OF THE MOST NOTED LIVING
 MATHEMATICIANS.

Passed Away Suddenly Yesterday.
 Professor Josiah Willard Gibbs, wto held the chair of mathematical physics at Yale since 1871, died yesterday morn ing at his home on High street, near Wall after a brief illness, from heart and stomach weakness, following sev- eral of delicate health.
 Professor Gibbs ranked as one of the foremost mathematicians in the world. and, in his speciality, far beyond any of the Yale mathematicians, living or dead. He was New Haven boy and was born in this city in 1889, being thus sixty-four years old at the time of his death.
 He was graduated at Yale in 1858, and studied afterwards at the universi- ties of Paris, Berlin and Heidelberg. At the time of his death he was mem Der of the National Academy of Sci ences, of the Royal Society of London, honorary, member of the Cambridge English Philosophical society and for eign member of the Loyal Society at London. Two years ago he obtained high honor by being awarded the Cop ley medal given by the Royal Society of London and earlier won the Rum. ford medal for prominence in mathe- nautical science. He was also mem Der of some ten other learned societies on both sides of the Atlantic. His pub lications number seventeen, of which the most important is an elementary treatise on statistical mechanics in which he did for thermo-dynamics what the great Newton did for celestial mechanics.
 He had been a prominent figure about New Haven, often taking long walks, and his death, although he had been for some time out of health, was very sud- den. Professor Gibbs never married. He was the son of Josiah Willard Gibbs, Yale 1909, a famous and greatly revered Yale Divinity school professor, and Mary Annie Cleve Gibbs. Professor Gibbs was prepared for col- | lege at the Hopkins grammar school in this city. He was occupied the first 1 five, years after graduation in mathe- nautical and other studies at New Ha- ven, taking his degree of Ph. D. in 1863. He was tutor in Yale from 1863 to 1866. He studied in Paris, Ber- ! lin and Heidelberg for the next three years. He was elected professor of mathematical physics at Yale in July, 1871.
 Some of the degrees which he had re- ceived and, societies of which he was a ! members:
 1858. B. A., 1861 M. A., 1863 Ph. D., Yale college. 1879. Member of the National Acad- emy of Sciences, Washington 1Sso Associate Fellow of the Ameri- can Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston.
 1 1881. Rumford Medalist of the Amer ican Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston. "
 1885, Foreign Member of the Dutch Society of Sciences, Harlem.
 18S9 Corresponding Member of the Royal Society of Sciences, Gottingen.
 1891 Honorary Member of the Cam bridge Philosophical Society.
 1892. Honorary Member of the Lon don Mathematical Society.
 1892. Honrary Member of the Man.
 chester Literary and Philosophical So- ciety.
 1892 Foreign Member of the Royal
 Academy of Sciences, Amsterdam. 1S93 Honrary Ph. D., University of
 Erlangen.
 1893. ILL. D., Williams College.
 1S96 IL. D., Princeton University.
 1897. Foreign Member of the Royal
 Society of London.
 1900. Corresponding Member of the
 Berlin Academy.
 1900. Correspondent of the French
 Institute.
 1901. Copley Medalist of the Roya I Society of London. l 1901. Honorary Member of the Phy. sical Society of London.
 1902. Math. D., University of Christi
 ana.
 1902 Corresponding Member of thu
 Bavarian Academy of Sciences. The work that brought Professor Gibbs the greatest renown was in tn, field of thermo-dynamics. The pape that brought him first into prominen notice was his treatise on the Equilib rum of Heterogeneous Substances published, in. 1875 by the Connection Academy of Arts and Sciences. Hi : last contribution on this subject wa , his book in the bicentennial series a Yale entitled "An Elementary Treatis
 on Statistical Mechanics" wherein Ii f developed the subject from priori con ! alterations, and laid what are likely t f be the foundations of this branch 0
 science for the, future. E In 1881 he began the development O the Vector Analysis and applied it t \ problems in Crystalography and to tn , computation of the orbits of planet f and comets, and also to problems in tn
 theory of light. His work in this latte ;, branch gave strong support to the cleo | tro-magnetic theory, and powerful in fluence in securing a general adoption of this theory by physicists. He came t use the Vector methods more and nor | in his classes and was completely orig inal in his handling of physical prob lems.
 He was man not only of high schol | arly attainments, but also gentlema
 of high Christian character and aim. q His death is a severe loss to the uni n Iversity and to this community, whic 3 he has so long honored.
 Arrangements for the funeral are nc
 lcomplete.
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