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died at his home in New Haven.
Prof. Gibbs was born in New 'Haven on February I I , 1839, and bore the name of his father, who was Professor of Sacred Literature at Yale. He graduated at Yale in 1 8 5 8 and after some years as tutor studied in Europe successively at Paris, Berlin and Heidelberg in the years 1866 to 1869. H e was appointed in 1871 to the chair he held to the close of his life, the scope of which he extended to cover courses in pure mathematics (vector-analysis), celestial mechanics and theoretical astronomy.
While Gibbs' name will always be mainly associated with the epoch-marking papers on thermodynamics which he published in the years 1 8 7 3 to 1878, astronomers will have reason to bear him in grateful remembrance by the extremely elegant, direct and original method of the determination of elliptic orbits from three observations, made public in 1889.
Besides many recognitions of his position at home, Prof. Gibbs was the recipient of numerous honors from abroad, amongst others he was a Foreign Member of the Royal Society at London, Corresponding Member of the Berlin Academy and Correspondent of the Institute of France.
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