THE WILLARD GIBBS AWARD

摘要

The award was founded in 1910 by William Converse(1862-1940),a former chairman and secretary of the Chicago Section.The medal was named for Professor Josiah Willard Gibbs(1839-1903)of Yale University.Gibbs,whose formulation of the Phase Rule founded a new science,is considered by many to be the only American born scientist whose discoveries are as fundamental in nature as those of Newton and Galileo.