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Dissemination of Gibbs’s work (Path 2): Gibbs ➔ van der Waals ➔ Roozeboom ➔ community
In my previous two posts (here and here), I described the ways by which J. Willard Gibbs’s work on thermodynamics spread through the European science community. In this post I describe another way Gibbs’s work spread and it began with early admirer of Gibbs, Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837-1923), a Dutch theoretical physicist. It… Continue reading
Block by Block – The Historical and Theoretical Foundations of Thermodynamics. “Hanlon has written a masterpiece.” – Mike Pauken, Senior Engineer, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and author of Thermodynamics for Dummies
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Hi! I’m Bob Hanlon. After earning my Sc.D. in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and enjoying a long career in both industry and academia, I’ve returned to school, my own self-guided school, seeking to better understand the world of thermodynamics. Please join me on my journey.
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