The Greatest Physicist You've Never Heard Of

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Josiah WIllard Gib
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“When Josiah Willard Gibbs died in 1903, a European physicist described him as “the greatest synthetic philosopher since Newton.” And this was before scientists really understood the full importance of his work.”
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"…whose name not only in America but in the whole world will ever be reckoned among the most renowned theoretical physicists of all times."
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“Josiah Willard Gibbs and his Relation to Modern Science” - Fielding Garrison
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@hggpi 2 дня назад

i like watching your videos when i feel depressed.

@Eevee8858 День назад

Two outcomes: it gets worse, It gets worse but hey atleast you found something to love cheers

@hamish_todd День назад

The statistical mechanics work is enough that I am glad to have seen your video. But we should never forgive Gibbs for choosing vector algebra over Clifford algebra and putting physics in that direction. Nobody is sure why; since he knew and even liked Clifford's work, he gave no reason for the decision.

@copywright5635 День назад

I will add a pinned comment about this. It seems that Gibbs was not immediately aware of Grassman's work. However, once he found out that his vector calculus was a special case of Grassman algebras, he immediately tried to promote it as much as possible

@jkzero 2 дня назад

This was a really interesting lesson, I was not aware of Gibbs' contributions beyond stat mech.

@copywright5635 2 дня назад

Thanks!

@CliffHanger-fg6uy 2 дня назад

Gibbs was already my answer to favorite American physicist. Heaviside is my overall favorite. Gibbs is my favorite American. I’ve heard good things about “A History of Vectorial Analysis.” It seems like it might go into some detail on Gibbs’ role. Also, Paul J Nahin’s books on Heaviside is great if you ever decide to make a video on him.

@gideonterer7818 20 часов назад

Where can I get the PDF version... I've searched for that book everywhere... Heaviside is my hero alongside Maxwell... And of course the engineer Charles Steinmetz

@KipIngram День назад

People who want to tear Feynman down have always mystified me. From what I've been able to tell they're just emotional about it - Feynman had a gregarious, extroverted personality, and there just seems to be a lot of people who automatically hate people like that, perhaps because they're unable to be like that themselves and they're jealous. So their response is to denigrate, which is incredibly immature and shoddy. Feynman was absolutely incredible in terms of his overt achievements, but even more so in terms of his ability to TEACH. Anyone who's truly interested in physics should consume every bit of Feynman material they can lay their hands on.

@pabloagogo1 День назад

But Feynman was not born in USA. I believe he was born in 1924 in Soviet Union, in either Russia or Belarus. But his parents immigrated to USA a couple of years later.

@KipIngram 15 часов назад

@@pabloagogo1 Ok. I didn't know that, but... what does it have to do with his scientific career?

@pabloagogo1 11 часов назад

@@KipIngram Hi, this video is about the Greatest Physicist Born and Raised in the USA. So just saying that Feynman can't be considered, because he was not born in the USA. So this is the premise of this video, you have be Born in USA to be considered.

@KipIngram 5 часов назад

@@pabloagogo1 Ok, and I was unaware of that until someone else pointed it out earlier, but if that's the case then what was the point of putting his picture up there with an X across it, if he wasn't even in the contest? You'd think he just wouldn't even be mentioned at all. It's kind of like having a video on the greatest President and putting an X'd out picture of Margaret Thatcher up there, yeah?

@sychuan3729 5 часов назад

@@pabloagogo1 Feynman was born in New York. His father was born in Minsk and went to america when he was 5.

@physicsbutawesome День назад

Make him famous, he deserves it!

@AR-dn9ej 2 дня назад

btw the helmholtz free energy is good for systems where the volume can remain constant and the gibbs free energy is good for systems where the pressure is constant. chemists like the gibbs free energy because we live under constant pressure conditions

@Higgsinophysics День назад

Leibniz.would like to speak with you about the intro :D !! Just kidding, a lot if very interesting physics and history :D

@bjornfeuerbacher5514 День назад

Leibniz wasn't a physicist, so why should he care about the intro?

@Nuss-j4s День назад

@@bjornfeuerbacher5514 he is probably referring to calculus, Newton and Leibniz had a beef about who invented it (and actually the most common notation used nowadays is due to Leibniz).

@ivanjorromedina4010 День назад

@@bjornfeuerbacher5514the thing about not being a physicist is kind of debatable as he made some contributions. As most of his ideas, they were good, but they lacked every possible foundation and had to be redone again some centuries later with a better mathematical understanding.

@Abraxas_96 2 дня назад

The background music is very annoying (and too loud).

@loganmoon380 День назад

Ondine is a beautiful piece

@user-po1kv3hg3g 2 дня назад

Josiah Willard Gibbs

@Goat-e3g 2 дня назад

The greatest is EINSTEIN Even if Einstein never wrote a line on Relativity he is the greatest physicist - max born. Gibbs is famous if you ever studied stastical physics

@bjornfeuerbacher5514 День назад

"Even if Einstein never wrote a line on Relativity he is the greatest physicist" I'd like to hear some arguments why Born thought that. Yes, Einstein made some other discoveries, e. g. about Brownian motion and explaining the photo effect - but how does that justify calling him the greatest physicist?

@nananou1687 19 часов назад

The greatest is Newton.

@NoahSpurrier 12 часов назад

But the topic was American scientists. If it any scientist, I’d pick Maxwell James Clerk Maxwell.

@Physicslover1879 16 часов назад

Richard Feynmann

@BlueHue-thecelestialblue 2 дня назад

Great video, very interesting, up until now Gibbs was just some random name that popped up in thermodynamics here and there. I would suggest you making a video on Charles Sanders Peirce, he is probably one of the greatest American mathematicians of all time even if he wasn't mainly a mathematician(his discoveries in Foundational mathematics and logic were insanely ahead of his time).

@philipchung8682 2 дня назад

this video was spontaneous

@raghavnautiyal9250 2 дня назад

this video has a negative solution for becoming famous and probably controvertial.

@dylanwho 2 дня назад

seriously wtf!?!? Thank you for making this.

@oneonomatopoet 2 дня назад

The free energy is Gibbs

@kyleclegg89 2 дня назад

Physicists actually used quaternions before vectors? That's crazy.

@antonymossop3135 День назад

They're a convenient way to work with Hamiltonians.

@kyleclegg89 День назад

@@antonymossop3135 i don't really know what that is yet, get back to me in a couple years

@jonasdaverio9369 2 дня назад

I would say Gibbs vector calculus has pretty much been abandoned in fundamental theoretical physics in favor of tensor notation. It's still widely used by engineers, though

@antonymossop3135 День назад

It's just a generalization of the same concept, so it's been refined I'd say, rather than abandoned...

@ivanjorromedina4010 День назад

@@antonymossop3135well actually Hermann Grassmann would like to say something...

@ivanjorromedina4010 День назад

@@antonymossop3135well, you might want to read about Hermann Grassmann. This is an advice that (you can also read this) Gibbs himself would have given.

@antonymossop3135 8 часов назад

@@ivanjorromedina4010 I'm familiar (although not much more than that) with Grassmann's precedence in this arena. And yes, I can see that his concept of exterior products would mean he'd already outlined the path to rank >1 tensors. So I agree - I accept your point.

@roneyandrade6287 2 дня назад

Thanks 😊

@aniksamiurrahman6365 2 дня назад

Willard Gibbs. I guessed at 52 sec. No one can read two lines of Thermodynamics without crossing Gibbs at least 50 times. Tho, I'm a (Bio)chemist, and cross path with him at least 50 more times a day.

@jonasdaverio9369 2 дня назад

At 7:19 It should be PdV, not PV

@aniksamiurrahman6365 2 дня назад

I think the video willfully avoided all form of derivative.

@copywright5635 2 дня назад

@@aniksamiurrahman6365 Yeah sort of. It's somewhat implied

@bjornfeuerbacher5514 День назад

@@aniksamiurrahman6365 Err, the equation at 7:19 he talks about uses derivatives (or rather differentials). There is only one differential missing in it, that was the point.

@bjornfeuerbacher5514 День назад

@@copywright5635 ??? In what way is this "implied" there?

@microwavv День назад

@dansamarco1610 2 дня назад

btw you have a typo in the description, should be Gibbs not Gib

@filipnagy3535 11 часов назад

Gibbs is plural

@d.a.f. 2 дня назад

Great video!

@HaroldKatcher День назад

J Willard Gibbs?

@SponsoredByKurkure 2 дня назад

That's not what a bald eagle sounds like, that's the sound of the black hawk not bald eagle

@aniksamiurrahman6365 2 дня назад

I kno r8! LOL!

@canoflame6127 2 дня назад

😢😂😮❤😅❤😊❤❤❤

@5-sf 2 дня назад

vector calculus sux

@aniksamiurrahman6365 2 дня назад

Throw away your phone, TV, fridge, car, turn off the electricity, even your clothes. None ud exist or be affordable without vector calculus.

@5-sf 2 дня назад

@@aniksamiurrahman6365 And yet it still sux. Hamilton's solution wasn't perfect, but *at least* his vector product is associative. That's really the bare minimum as far as I'm concerned. It's no wonder why vector calculus is so reliant on other algebraic structures.

@bjornfeuerbacher5514 День назад

@@5-sf So what do you prefer?

@antonymossop3135 День назад

@@bjornfeuerbacher5514 Dollars to doughnuts it's differential forms...

@bhbr-xb6po 8 часов назад

I could tell from the thumbnail who you mean. I've been a long-time lonely Gibbs fanboy :D

@thomasachee463 День назад

Our prayer before tests in chemical engineering school: Our Professor Who art in equilibrium with his environment Cited be thy name Thy activity coefficient equal to one Thy ideal work be done In lab as it is in theory Forgive us this day our non-idealities As we forgive those who create entropy against us Lead us not into assumption But deliver us from error. For thine is the engine, the power, and big G. For ever and ever. Ah-CHEN Statistical Mechanics fucks.

@johnhirshleifer5947 13 минут назад

Great video! Yale also awarded the first PhD (in physics) to an African American, Edward Bouchet, in 1876.

@HalKworasmi 14 часов назад

This is a wonderful vidéo. However I disagree strongly with the end. Gibbs and Heaveyside have killed thé quaternions and then thé géométric algebra (it's stronger continuation). Thise are far supérior to vector àlgebra for classical mechanic, for relativity, for quantum mechanics.

@wellesmorgado4797 11 часов назад

He´s Da Man of physics! One of the patrons of statistical mechanics (the other big shot is Ludwig B). The ensemble idea made Statmech a truly useful branch of science. And I read that he worked for years without pay. Can you believe it? 😂😂😂 Edit: I should have listened to the video first, since it mentions the working for free thing. lol

@damond4 14 часов назад

Good Yankee that he was, Gibbs published his papers in the Annals of the Connecticut Academy of Sciences, so for a long time nobody in Europe read them. (It didn’t help that his original notation was a bit obscure.) Many fundamental equations of thermodynamics are named for the first person after Gibbs to rediscover them. These now customarily carry double-barrelled names, Gibbs-Helmholtz equation, Gibbs-Duhem equation, etc. Gibbs' burial site in the Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven is easy to visit.

@byungmooncho7546 13 часов назад

Yes. Feynmann. I am still going with him. Van Vleck, if you want to go back in time a bit, for "unheralded" American physicist although he is a Nobel winner. Onsagar, how about him (a bit Norweigian though)? Well, heck, Polayni, why not? Oh, while you are at it, why not Oppenheimer? You keep doing this and you will eventually land on Feynmann. Your opinion is biased for Gibbs. No doubt Gibbs is a giant but Feynmann still bests him for general impact he had on not just physics but in science and promoting science (Feynmann Lectures, just to name one in addition to plethora of his "popular science books." Now, if you were going to make a claim like this, you better have a good argument as well as be careful what you say since you just had one chance to convince me to subscribed to your channel. Sorry, but you failed. NOT convinced.

@proudirani 16 часов назад

The greatest American physicist was John Bardeen. He is the ONLY person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics TWICE; one for theory of superconductivity and the other one for invention of transistor. We all should know how important transistors are!

@naakatube 8 часов назад

Please do math and physics textbook reviews!

@kevins7030 День назад

Since you have the same portrait I have in my old undergrad statistical mechanics textbook, I'm going to guess you are going with Gibbs. That is my guess.

@Vengemann 17 часов назад

That's why I always learn about the physicist or mathematician before studying the topic if I find their name.. it also helps in studies

@analog_guy Час назад

I see that the Gibbs phenomenon in Fourier synthesis is attributed to this same Gibbs. 😊

@denisdaly1708 10 часов назад

The music is fine as a choice, but far too loud. I prefer to listen to your argument. It is a shame thst this trend exist among Americans that the assumption is that no onevin their right mind would want to listen unless there was loud music. Thanks for introducing him to me.

@cewkins721 День назад

I first heard about J Willard Gibbs when i read a small history passage in my math book about the development of vectors and linear algebra, it also stated his contributions to statistical mechanics, since then i noted his name on the list of great physicist, later on i ran into the Gibbs free energy equation, his work is truly remarkable! Great video!

@leolacic9442 День назад

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@dungton6066 21 час назад

But here a counter, Gibbs still need to use the paper of those before him to write his thesis. I don’t think anyone in these field stand above other as they all did something other can’t theorize

@georgekutras7063 40 минут назад

So... hypothetically if someone were to ask you who your favorite physicist was... (maybe several times) what would you say? (Hypothetically!)

@copywright5635 6 минут назад

Hypothetically I'd say shut up biology major

@antonymossop3135 День назад

I very much agree with your pick!

@andreasboe4509 День назад

My vote is on John Stewart Bell.

@nahomafriend 19 часов назад

thanks nice video

@inigo-montoya 8 часов назад

Peter higgs?

@ivanjorromedina4010 День назад

I get that Hermann Grassmann's work was largely ignored during the time, but it can be argued that he already produced most of linear algebra without any quaternions or the help of Gibbs. I agree that Gibbs is one the greatest physicists of all time, but as a mathematcian (I mean myself) I disagree on the vectors and for the people that say that, they should go take a look at history books about this topic. But as I said first Grassmann was well before Gibbs (we're talking decades) and when he knew about Grassmann he started to publicize Grassmann's work as it was more general than his own work and was done prior. Also the formalization of the linear algebra concepts started with Peano, not Gibbs. I agree that he did some on all of this, but that is very far from inventing vectors or vector analysis. By saying this type of things physicists and engineers (which I am studying to also become one) are spreading a historic falsehood and going against what Gibbs himself was doing when he became aware of Grassmann.

@copywright5635 День назад

Yes I will make a pinned comment about this. Grassman's work was very important, I just thought it might be a bit difficult to introduce it well in the video

@ivanjorromedina4010 17 часов назад

@@copywright5635thank you very much! The video and the content is really great, but I think this had to be said just in case someone starts believing that this is the way it turned out.

@hellenicculture8169 18 часов назад

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@hellenicculture8169 19 часов назад

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