S. scientist ever. A lifelong bachelor, Gibbs was a quiet, modest man. At Yale, where he did his major work, most of the students not only did not know he was a great man ; they did not even know ...

Born at New Haven, he was the son of Josiah Gibbs (1790–1861), professor of sacred literature in Yale Divinity School. He entered Yale College in 1854 and graduated four years later; he ...