Word: willard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every 100 U. S. citizens who have heard of Thomas Alva Edison, it would be hard to find one who has heard of Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839-1903). Some years ago, however, a gathering of British scientists spouting learned chitchat in a cafe voted Gibbs no less than the greatest U. S. scientist ever...
...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 he existed. His colleagues admired him but found his recondite researches hard to understand. Like Albert Einstein, Josiah Willard Gibbs was not an experimenter but a thinker...
...Gibbs dinner is being held to sing his praises. The celebrants at Yale reminded the world that although obstreperous strong men are making a lot of current news, it is for ''quiet people" that "history reserves some of its best places. Such a one was Josiah Willard Gibbs...
Leon Henderson, Isador Lubin and Willard Thorp (TIME, Dec. 12). Shortly thereafter Thurman Arnold's Department of Justice trucked across the floor waggling a finger at patent monopoly in the glass container industries (TIME, Dec. 26). Last week it was the turn of SEC Chairman William O. Douglas. As everyone knows, Bill Douglas is a very agile fellow and when he revealed that his dancing partner would be the insurance business-far too dignified for Big Appling-everyone knew it would be fun watching...
...Roslindale, Mass.; William E. Braden '41, of Toledo, O.; Harry R. Harwood, Jr. '39, of Springfield, Mass.; John H. Howland '39, of Windsor, Vt., Bernard Kalman '39, of Roxbury, Mass.; William H. Magruder '40, of Bethesda, Md.; Walter D. Riddle, Jr. '40, of Edgeworth, Pa.; and Holland L. Willard '40, of Brookline, Mass...