Josiah Willard Gibbs

See also Ampere, Andre-Marie Clausius, Rudolf Julius Emmanuel Electricity Electricity, History of Faraday, Michael Gibbs, Josiah Willard Magnetism and Magnets Molecular Energy Oersted, Hans Christian Thomson, William. 

See also Carnot, Nicholas Leonard Sadi Clausius, Rudolf Julius Emmanuel Gibbs, Josiah Willard Heat Transfer Helmoltz, Herman von Joule, James Prescott Ostwald, Wilhelm Thermodynamics,... 

Boltzmann s achievements in theoretical physics are all the more remarkable in view of the considerable opposition to his ideas and in view of his own declining health. He had increasingly severe bouts of mental depression, and he tried to commit stiicide several times during his hfe. In 1906 he sncceeded in hanging himself while vacationing with his wife and family at Dnino, near Trieste, on the Adriatic Sea. see also Gibbs, Josiah Willard AIaxwell, James Clerk. 

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